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T!!F BAINTIESI AM iSST FJPISITE CIGARniES 

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURIST'S GUIDE 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS 



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P L J-: A y LJIIE RESORTS 



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UNITED STATES s CANADIAN PKOVINCES. 



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ILLUSTP^ATED WITH NUMEI\OUS ENGI\AYINGS. 



"Rew Tor,lj: 

CHARLES S U Y I) A M , I' U B L I S U K R , 
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ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THZ YEAR 1876, 

BY CHARLES S U Y D A M , 

IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON. D C. 



Fur, Fin # Feather: 

A BI-MONTHLY PERIODICAL, DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO 

Field Sports and Angling, 



BEING A COMPILATION OF THE 

mmnt mm, mhrmn^ lb vshk iniicd states and Canada, 

AND A COMPENDIUM OF 

Useful Information on Hunting and Fishing 






CHARLES SUYDAM, PUBLISHER 
149 Chambers Street. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in tlie year 1879, by Charlbs Sutdam, in the Office of the Librarian 
of Congress, at Washington. 

Fur, Fin, AND Feather is a bi-monthly publication, devoted 
exclusively to Field Sports and Angling, being a compilation of the Game 
Laws, embracing the whole United States and Canada, and a compendium 
of all subjects pertaining to Hunting and Fishing of the highest standard au- 
thorities. Each number is replete with useful and reliable accounts of the 
Habits and Seasons of the different varieties of Game and Fish, Valuable 
Notes on Hunting and Fishing, Interesting Articles on the Game Fields and 
Angling Waters of America, Sketches of Camp- Life and Sporting Adventure, 
and a vast fund of Useful and Entertaining Reading for those who use either 
Gun or Rod, and is an undoubted authority on all subjects of which it 



freats. It is tlie only periodical of the kind published in this country, and 
the information it contains can be found in no other work. 

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 

One copy one year, . $2.50 | Six copies one year, . $13.50 | Ten copies one year, $20 

Single copies 60 cents, can be had of all dealers in guns, fishing taelde, and News agents, 
or mailed postpaid on receipt of price. 

TO .A.Z3-^7-Z3fL'X>XSX3Xl.fil. 

Fur, Fin, and Feather has been established nearly nine years, is well and favorably 
known to sportsmen in every section of the country, and has become an absolute necessity to 
all who either shoot or fish. The extent and character of its circulation renders it, in its 
especial line, one of the best advertising mediums in the country for the dissemination of in- 
formation respecting all kinds of supplies for sportsmen. The nature and character of its 
contents are such that it is carefully preserved for reference, and is not, like the daily and 
weekly papers, hastily glanced over and then cast aside, but is constantly consulted for the 
valuable information it contains ; and we have no hesitation in saying that there is no other 
periodical published a single copy of which has its contents more thoroughly and often ex- 
amined by so many different parties — the number of readers not being confined to one indi- 
vidual, but frequently include the sportsmen of an entire neighborhood. 

When it is taken into consideration that among the votaries of the Gun and Rod are in- 
cluded Merchants, Mnnut'acturers, Bankers, Brokers, Inventors, Doctors , Divines, Artists, 
Literary Nlen, Farmers, Stock Breeders, Poulterers, and all other classes of business men 
and professions, nearly all of whom are gentlemen of ample fortunes, and who are liberal to 
a fault in dispensing their means for the gratification of their tastes, it becomes evident that 
a work of this character presents inducements to advertisers oflered by few other publica- 
tions. 

Not only is Fur, Fin, and Feather the best advertising medium in the country for all 
ikinds of goods pertaining to the wants of sportsmen, such as guns, rifles, pistols, fishing 
TACKLE, CLOTHING, WATCHES, Jewelry, CARRIAGES, &c.,but is Only equalled by two or three 
others as an agent for the announcement of EVERYTHING — articles of ladies' wear alone 
excepted. Those who make the JRepairing of fine Guns a specialty, and the Keepers of Ho- 
tels, especially those located in the vicinity of Hunting and Fishing Localities, can find no 
better medium to bring their establishments to the favorable notice of a large and generous 
class of patrons. 



" It is a useful book for reference, and the only one that contains a full text of all the shooting and 
fishing game laws in the United States and Oanailas. It is a book of general information to every 
sportsman. Its articles on Bshingand hunting arc well written, and will be found highly interesting 
to the general reader."— T'Ae Chicago Field, 

" It should be in the hands of every sportsman, and is indispensable to every gun club In the cotm- 
try. As for ourselves, we have occasion to refer to it almost daily, and it has enabled us to solve many 
an obscure or knotty question in the column devoted to 'Queries and Answers.' "—2 wr/". Field, and 
Farm. 

" Its anecdotes of sporting scenes and adventures make it interesting for all, while its large fund of 
Taluable information in its appropriate field, concerning which it is an acknowledged authority, make 
it almost indispensable to every lover of the rod and gun."— 7'Ae Rural Times, Minneapolis, Minn. 

" The last issue of Fur, Fin, and Feather is superior to any former number that I have had the plca- 
enrc of reading. I am delighted with it. If it continues to improve, it will be the best publication of 
Its kind In existence."— Ja/rtfts B. Broivn, Sedalia, Mo. 

" Sportsmen can find no better companion in print than Mr. Snydam's Fur, Fin, and Feather. It l8 
a handy, flexible vohiiue, containing a compilation of the game law? of all the States and the provmces 
. of Canada, and all eul)ject8 pertaining to hunting and llshing. li gives specific directions how to lake 
care of all kinds of sporting materials, what kinds to purchuse, with valuable hints as to when can be 
found good game of all kinds. It tells you what game is in season and what out of season, what can be 
leszally killed and what can not, together with u collection of interesting stories of camp life and out- 
door sports, as well as many useful Jiiiits for the gunner and angler. Wo do not wonder that F«r, .Pin. 
and Feather is a favoriNj hand book witli all our sportsmen, fos its value is apparent even upon a casual 
perusal."— 5yracu«e Standard. 

" 1 am well satisfied vnth Fur, Pin, and Feather. It is well worth the price, and any man that sub- 
Bcrioes tor it gets the worth of his money."—//. Burchard. Corry Pa. 

" It is an absolute necessity to erery sportsman throngliout the country, and is invaluable to thOM 
who use cither gun or rod.."'— ForeM and Stream. 

" I am more than ever pleased with Fur, Fin, and Feather."—.!. N. Cheney, GUn's Fallt, 

" Every eportsman should have a copy."— Kod and Oun. 



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One page 100 I Quarter of a page 40 I Sixteenth of a page 14 

Addrees all communications to CUAS, SUYDAM, Publisher, 149 Chnmbem St., N. Y. 



m. wwmwwismim^ 

208 J>rorth Second Street, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA., 




Importer of and Dealer in 

BrBficli aid Imle Loaiii 



RIFLES J^ND PISTOLS. 

MLanxifaotvirer of 

mFMSPmiTCMiliCliPEmEE 



Exact Size. 



For Ee-Loailng 
Breecl-Loaiiiig Sliol Gunaiii Rifle Shells 

ri'lce 35 Cents. 
T/te Best, Cheapest, and most Complete Implement out. Also the New Patent 

lOMBINATION REVOLVING POCKET RIFLE AND SHOT GUN 

FOR SMALL BIRD AND FROG SHOOTING, 

Pishing and Sportsmen's Tackle 

IW ALL VARIETY. WRITE FOR PRICE LIST. 

SMOKE VANITY FAIR. 



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MA-lVXir^ACTUni^RS OIT 



Guns, Rifles, Revolvers, 

STEEL AND IRON RIFLE BARRELS, 

AND IMPORTERS OF 

mERY, GDNSMITHSIATERIALS &MINI} TACKLE 

130 and 1 3S TVoocl Street, 



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Fur, Fin, and Feather — Adverlisements, 




^^ COMIBIIVED 

LAWN, BEACH, AND BOAT CANOPY, 

Patented Marcli 9, 1880. 

HIGHLY ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL. 

dimensions: lengtli of awninor 8 feel; width of awD'ng 3^ feet ; lieight of adjustable poles t 
feet; leugtli wlieu folued 3 feet. Cau be packed iu jour trunk when tiavehng. 

At the low price of $5 which we have put this Canopy on the market, it must meet witl 
a large demand, as it is p ononnced by every one to be an almost indispensable article for th( 
tourist. It makes a perfect shield frum the sun's rays for ten persons; can be put up to with 
stand a gale within .two minutes, and tilted to any pitch when, the sun is low ; can be foldec 
to a neat p:ick;ige, weighing but 4 pounds, and carried in tl-e hand. It is suitable for archery 
tennis, and other lawns. Most desirable for the sea-beacli or artists shelter, and can be ad' 
justed to any boat as quickly as to the lavvu or beach. Affords the pioteclion of a tent, and is 
more convenient than an umbrt-lla. 

Price, complete, by express, C. 0. D $5 OC 

" " by mail, post paid by us $5 50 

Manufacturers and Importers of 

SPORTING GOODS 

124 and 126 Nassau Street, New York. 



Ji@°-Write for our Complete Catalogue of Sporting Goods."©!) 
Special Inducements to the Trade. 

iv Fur, Fin, and Feather — Advertisements. 



Pullman Hotel Gar Line 

THE SPORTSMAN'S ROUTE. 
Chicago & Norlh-Wesiern Railway 

Wirh one branch it rei bes Kaciiic, Kiiiiovlm. Milwaukee, and tlie country north thereof ; with !inoth«< 
liiK^ it pushes through Jih*.sville, Wntertovvn Oshliosh, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Encaiialia. ti> N.-uaunee 
iiiid Maiquulte ; witli amnliir line it. pnsscs through Madison, Elroy, and for St. Putil and MinuapDlls; 
l)i;iiicliiiig westward from Elioy.it runs to ami ihrough Winona, Owatonna, St. Peter, Munkiito, Now Ulin. 
;ni(i slops not until Lake K:iiir>Uu, Dakota, is reached ; another line starts from Chicago and runs through 
ICIt:'!!! 1111(1 Uockford to Fic<port. mid, via the Illinois Central, reaches W'lrren. Galena iind DuhuciU", ai'd 
iln- country hiyond. Still another line rnns almost due westward, and passes ihiough Dixon. Stiirling. 
Kiillon, Clinton (Iowa). Cedar Kiipids. Marshall town, Grand Junction, Missouri Valley Juncliou, to Council 
Blull's and Gnialia. This last iimiicd is the 

GREAT TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROUTE 

Pl®m®©r #/Te:rl:mitK€ Has 

— FOR 

Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, 
California, and the Pacific Coast. 

It runs thrcmgh th(^ Oanlcn of Illinois and Iowa, and is the Hi«aT«'«t". '^llovtOHt'. and l$«»«t". 
Itoilfe to OMAHA. l.r\<:(>hX, imdolhcr points ill .V/';/</f,l .S'/C.l . and for CIlKYKyNE, 
niCSVICIi,, SALT luAliii i'llV, IIHCIIMA CITY, CARSON, SA-CHA-Ml^NTO, 
SAN FliANCI'iCO, and nil ollin' points west, of I lie Missouri Hiver. 

The track is of the best sicel rail, mid is well Imlhisted. miil iis free from dust as a road can be mtule. 
riie bridges me slroiig iind durable and all the appointments ar(! Ilr.-I class in every respect The trains 
Ihiil run over this route are made up of elcLViint nev.' rullinnii I'abiee lloud and Sleeping Coaches, BUILT 
ICXI'IilCSSLY KOK. 'i'lllS LINK, luxurious, well-lij-lited and well-vciiiilated Day Coaches, and pleasant, 
■ loiiii^rji,.;; ;itid seioldng cars -all Iniilt bv this ("ompMiiv in tlieir own shops. The cars ar(^ all e(iuipped with 
the celebrated .Miller Siifetv Plattoriii. an>l P.itent niiifers and Conpliugs, Weslinghousc .'^afelv .\ir Brakes, 
mid every other .•ippliuncc tli.'if lins been devised for llie siifely of p.'is-en^r,.,- |p,ii,s. All trains are run by 
lelegraph. In a w>,,l. I liis ( ; Hi; \T M N K li.isllie besi and smoothest 1 rack, and the mo.M eleg.'int and com- 
fortable equipiiient (if any road in 111" Wrsi, niid lias no coniiietilor in the country. It is eminently the 
favorite route willi the ( 'liicigoaiis traveliii'.; west, north, or north-west, and is ackuowledgid bv the tr.iv 
eling public to be. the popular line for all points in Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota! Northern 
Micliigan, DaKota. Western Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho Nevada, Califor- 
nia, and the Pacifle Slope. ' 

TO siMEi THIS LI wMi PEsm miimii 

For Pridt'ie Chickens, Dtir/.'s, (iovsc ami lira ill SlKntli mj 

OUR IOWA LINE TO-DAY OFFERS 

MORE FAVORABLE POINTS THAW ANY OTHER ROAO IN THE COUNTRY, 

DEER AND BEAR HUNTB Nii, and for HRDOK TROUT, LAKE 
SALMON, PIKE, PKJKEKF.L, and IJASS FISHING 

a linndr.d points on the Northern and Northwestern lines of this companv will be found unsurpassed bJ^ 
uivtiiingin the West. 

ALL TICKET AGENTS CAN SELL YOU TICKETS BY THIS LINE. 

5SR<' A B-? ■ ^ I^B H ^J li^ » ^'" ""'"■'■ '■'"''• ''""^ I'ullni.'in Hotel Cars, Pullman Dining 
* U J /*. nrx, M .\l 171 ■ ill M J' • Cars, or any other form of Hotel, Dining or U.'staurunl Cars 
Til HOUGH bclwetiu Chicago and the Missouri Uiver. On no other road can you get all the meals you 
reoiiire between Chicrt o and Omaha without leaving the car you start in. This is the only line that, has 
TlIUGirOH eating cars of any sort. 

MARVIN HUGHITT, W. W. STENNETT, 

Cenf.ral j]fanager, Chicago. Gtn. Pass. Agent, Chicago. 



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inerican Chilletl Shot. 

SUPERIOU TO ALL OTHERS. 

Standard Oftop and Buck Shot 

THOS. W. SPARKS, 

MANUFACTURER, 

121 jrS?!«iA«™e«,! PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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Chilled £ Soft Drop Shot 



hot and Mar 



*%aperior in Fiiiisli. Be 8ure to Buy it. 
Sportsmen Endorse it as the Best* 

Office, 70 J^'orth Clinton Street, Chicago, Illinois, 

E. W. BLATCHFORD, President. 
N. CORWITH, Vice-President. 
C. F. GATES, Treasurer. 



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POWDER MILLS, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 




Oriental "Diamond Grain," 

For strength, cleanliness, and regularity of grain, this brand is unequaled. 
Packed iu square red canisters of one pound only. Sizes, FG, FFG, FFFG. 



Oriental ** Falcon Duckings." 

Coarse gruin, burns slowly, leaves the gun perfectly clean and is the favorite 
Powder for Duck and Pigeon Shooting. Packed iu 6 J lb. red tiu kegs; also, in 1 
lb. red canisters. Sizes, Nos. 1 to 4 (coarse). 

Oriental "Falcon Sportingr." 

Fine grain, very strong and clean. Packed in 6^ lb. red tin kegs ; also, 1 lb. 
red canisters. Sizes, Nos. 1 to 3 (fine). 



Oriental "Western Sportin§r/'i 

The Standard Powder for general purposes. Packed in kegs of 25 lbs., 22| lbs., 
6i lbs.; also, in 1 lb. and | lb. canisters. Sizes, FG, FFG, FFFG 

Oriental "Wild Fowl 8hootin^/' 

Coarse grain, for Sea, River, Lake, and Marsh Shooting, a superior Powder for 
ordinary shooting. Packed in kegs of 25 lbs., 12^ lbs., 6^ lbs.; also 1 lb. canisters. 
Sizes, Kos. 1 to 4 (coarse). 

Cartx-iclg-e, IVEnsliet, and. Cannon I*o^vd.er of 
Grovernment ft^treng-tli. 

SUPERIOR m mm aud blast hts powder. 

The ' ORIENTAL " Gunpowders are for sale by our Agents in the 

principal cities, and also at our offices 

No. 13 BROAD STREET, BOSTOlSr, MASS., 

a-^t> "Wassliiiigrton «t., niilltilo, IV. Y., 
4:i Wal>awli A.ve., diicat^o. 111., a.ii<]. 
a 14. I^ocvi!!*t Street, fest. Louis, Mio. 



ARTHUR WILLIAMS, 

jHresident, 



JOS. H. NEWHALL, 

Treasurer, 



Fur, Fin, and Feather — Advertisements, 



Smith & Wesson's Revolvers. 

FOUR SIZES: 

No. 1. — 23 Calltoro Rlin-Flre. 

No. 114.— 3 a Oalltoro, Central-yire, ]Vew MIodel. 

No. 53.— aw Calibre, Cciitral-JPlre, IVe-*^ Miodel. 

No. 3.— -A* Calltore (A.rniy), Central-lTlre, Ne>v Alodel. 




When a Revolver is required, it should be reliable ; therefore purchase a 
Genuine SMITH 8l WESSON. 

The 32-Calibre, New Model, has a Rebounding Hammer, the value of 
which, for saftey and convenience as a pocket revolver, cannot be over- 
stated. 

M. W. ROBINSON, Sole Agent, 

Aiao Agency for 79 Gbambcrs St., Ncu^ York. 

WESSON'S CELEBRATED RIFLES. 



HODGKINS £ HAISH, 




Importers, Iflanufacturers, and Dealers in 

uns, Rifles, Pistols, 

Gi Material aM Sportii Goods Generally, 



INo. % 

Walter C. Hodgkins, 
William F. Haigh. 



NEW YORK. 



fur, Fin, and Feather — Advertisements. 



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Chicago Field, 

The American Sportsman's Journal 

— AND — 

^ttOQtiiitii Mtttl^crritg on all Sparting mntttts 

— DEVOTED TO — 

Tie Ml Gi, MB,anflallLe£iMfiSiior ts of tie Field. 

UJCH J VUMBEE ILLUST BATED. 

A WEEKLY CHRONICLE OF SPORTING EVENTS. 



One year $4; six months $2 ; three months $1. Clubs of ilireo, one year, $9. Specimen 
copies 10 cents. Published so as to reach subscribers every Saturday. 

CHICAGO FIELD PUBLISHING CO., Proprietors, 

155 and 157 Dearborn St.f Chicago, Illinois, 

N. ROWE (Mohawk), Editor and Manager. 

Afield and Afloat, 

A SPORTSMAN'S JOURNAL, 

-DEVOTED TO — 

HWAilAB BBC 



The special departments, under the charge of qualified writers and experienced 
sportsmen, are as follow : 

Fish and Fishing, The Rifle, 
Gun and Game, The Horse, 

Yachting and Boating, Military, 

The Kennel, Billiards. 

Subscription Price S2 a year. Single copies 5 cents. 

Twelve back numbers, containing an unpublished work by Frank Forester, on 
" Guns and Gun Making," will be mailed to any address upon receipt of 60 cents. 

Afield and Afloat Publishing Company, 

(Hi I JVE I T E3 ID), 
607 Sansom Street, PHTLADELPHIA, PBNJST. 

Fur, Fin, anii^eather — Advertisements, at 




WHO IS UNACQUAINTED WITH THE CEOCRAPHY OF THIS COUNTRY. WILL 
SEE BY EX AMINING THIS MAP, THAT THE ' 




CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R. R. 



IS THE (iRKAT CONNKCTINCJ 

It» iiiiilii line runs from (.'hicaso to C'ounoll 
lilulTs. inissin^ tlirniicli .loliut. Ottawa, La Salle, 
ticn.'sei. .M.iliiif. Ilock Island, Davenport, West 
J.ilnuiy. l.iwa ( itv.MarciiK'o. Brooklyn, Grlnnoll, 
])i-,s .\i.iMi.>s ilH' caintai of Iowa/, Stuart, Atlan- 
tic iinil AvncM ; Willi branches from Bureau 
.Imuii.m to I'.'oiiii; wnioii .lunctlon to Miisoa- 
lin,', \V;if(liiiu:(..n, 1 '^uiil.'hl. lOldon, Belknap. 
«'.-iitr,^vill,', l-nii,ot..n. rrciiton, (;allatln, Caiue- 
r'ln, l.caviTiu-oi til, Atiliisuii. and Kansas City; 
WashiiiKtoii to SiKouriicy, OsUaloosa, and Knox- 
villc; IvcokiiK to KariiiiiiKtoa, Bonaparte, llen- 
loiispoif. In.lcpend.-nt. Kldon, Ottumwa, Eddy- 
villc.OikahHisa. I'olla. Monroe, and Dos Moines; 
l>.<nl(.ii to Monroe; lies Moines to Indianolaand 
Vinier.sct: Atlantleto Lewis and Audubon; and 
Avo(-a to Harlan, 'lliis is positively the only 
Hailroad, wlileti owns, ami oprrates a through 
line from Chicago into tlie .-^tate of Kansas. 

Tliroui,'li K.rt.ress I'assenaer Trains, with Pull- 
man I'alace i arsatlai-hod.arerun each way daily 
between tlllCACO and J'EOUIA, KaNS.^S Citv, 
CotNCIl, Itl.tKl-.S, hl:AVKNW()KTH and /VlTHl- 
FON. 'riiroiit.'li ears arcaiso run between Milwau- 
kee and Kiinsas City, via the "Milwaukee and 
Koek Island Short Miie,- 

'I'lic ••(;rc;ii Uock Island" is maRnilleently 
equipped. lis road bed is simply perfect, and its 
traoli IS l.aid wuli steel rails. 

What will please you most will be the pleasuro 
of eniiMiiij; your meals, while passinK over the 
beautilul prairies ot Illinois and Iowa, in one of 
our uiacnillceiit Diiiin',; Cars that aceompany all 
'Mirounh li.vpress Trains. Vou get an entire 
meal, as uooU as is served in any Urst-cUsa hotel, 
forsevonty-tlve cents. 

ApnrociiitlnK the tact that a majority of the 
people prefer separate apartments tordilTerent 
purposes (and llio immense passenger business 
of this line warraiuins it), we are pleased to an- 
nounce that this Company runs PxiHnmn I'alace 
Sleeping Cars forsleepintf purposes, and Palace 



INK BETWEEN THE EAST & THE WEST I 

Vinino Curs for eating; purposes only. One other 
great feature of our I'alace i:ars is a SMOKINU 
SALOON where you can enjoy your "Havana" 
at all hours of the day. 

MaRnlllcent Iron Uridces span the Ml.'^sisalppl 
and Missouri rivers at all iniints crosseil by this 
lino, and transfers are avoided at Coinicil UlulTs, 
Kansas City, l.eaveinv.nth, ami Atcliisou, con- 
nections beini; made in Cnioii D.'pots. 

TUK PKIN( U'AL K. K. ( ONNECTIOXS OF 
THIS (illliAT TIIKOUGII LINK AKE A3 
I'OLLOWS : 

At CHICAGO, with all diverRinR lines for the 
East and South. 

At KNCl.KWoon, with the L. S, & M. S., and P., 
Ft. W. &C. K. Hds. 

At WAsm.NGTo.v Heights, with P., C. & St. 

"At La Salle, with 111. Cent. R, R. 
Atl'KoiUA, with P. P. & J.; P. U. & E. : I. B. ck 
W.; 111. Mid.; and T. P. & W. Hds. 

At Uock Island, with "Milwaukee & Rock 
Island Short l.,ine," and Rock Isld A Peo. lids. 

At Uavem'oht, with the Davenport Division 
C. M. A. St. P. It. it. 

At WESTMuiCKTV, with the B.,C.R.& N. R, R. 

AtCltLNNKl.l.. with tentral Iowa U.K. 

At DKS Moi.NK.s. with I). M. A K. D. U. R. 

AtCoCNCU. lil fi IS, with Union Pacille R. R. 

At(VMAH.\. with |{. ^ Mo. 11. U, U. in Neb.i 

AtCoi.rMiilsJi .Ni. lluN,wUhB.,C. K..^N. U.K. 

At tniiT.vWA, with ( entral Iowa U. U. ; W., 
St. L. A I'ac, and C. 1!. i y. U. Rds. 

At ULUKIK, with Tul.. Peo. & War.; Wab., St. 
Louis Jt Pac, and St. I... Keo. & N.-W. i:. Hds. 

At ( a.mf;h().v, with 11. St. J. R. U. 

At ATCHISON, with Atch.. Topeka & Santa Fe; 
Atch. & Neb and Ctm. Br. U. P. K. Rds. 

At Lkavenwokth, with Kan. Pue., and Kan. 
Cent. 11. Kds. 

At Kansas City, with all lines for the West 
and Southwest. 



^^Vr^J'i'^*^^ P.\I..ArK CAK8 are run throush to VEORIA. BES ltIOIN£8. 
COr\<'IL HI.rFF.S. KANSAS CITY. ATt UlSON. and l.EATEXWORTH/ 

.. Vi*^****' '^'•* *'"'• *•>'«»«. Uiiown UH the "Oreat Rock laluud JBoute." are •old bv 
all ricket ABuntH In the United State* and Canada. 

For Inrormatlon not obtuluublfi a( your bouiu ticket oftlce, addrcsa, 
A. iUMFIAT.r., E. ST. .TOHIV, 

Ucn'l Superintendeni. Oen'l Tkt. and Paas'cr Agt.. ,, 
Chicago, U» 

''^" Fur, Fin, and Feather — Advertisements, 



TABLK OF CONTENTS. 



A Good Rendezvous 23 

Ant'liiig VValerrt in llie Kmpire Slnte ... 22H 
A Pleafliinl FViinsylvatiia Trout Stream . 98 

Badiewana Bay 1 03 

Bfavtrkill Rejrion 85 

BlackwHter Region, t)ie. , 76 

Blacksli Lake. ^6 

Beat F'liice in Florida to Hunt 88 

Cape Bre'oti 246 

Cliineo'c igiie Island 87 

Coa-t R.-^i.»n of South Carolina 232 

Coenr D'Aletie — 

Birds and Animals 35 

Fisli 35 

Nnlure of llie Country 35 

Routes 35 

Diversififd Game Fields — 

Never- Knding Sporting Region 69 

Mob Jack Hay and itn Surroundiniis. . 69 
Mountain R(-gioti of the Two "Virginias 70 

Virginia SpriniiS. . . , 71 

Gently Wooing 71 

Notioway Region, the 72 

Jeffersonton, Virginia 73 

Doxn in Florida — 

Jupiter Inlet 58 

Lake Rpgion, the. 58 

Caloo«ahatchie — Big Cypress Swamp 

— The Kverif lades 59 

Myakka 60 

Perdido Bay 60 

Middle Florida 60 

Down in Jersey 205 

Down in Tennessee 228 

Kau Clare 161 

Fish and Grouse Region 67 

Fish and Grouse Region 83 

Fraiikfon. Kentucky 67 

Game Fields and ^ngling Waters of Ar- 
kansas 162 

Game and Fish in Ulster and Sullivan 

Couniiep, New York 22 

Game Coverts of Nevada 68 

Glympsf s of Some Northwestern Scenery 243 

Gull River Waters 45 

Ho>'t* Wildeincs« 241 

Hunting and Fishing in the Province of 

Ontario 41 

In Alabama 236 

In Colorado — 

Trout Streams and IIow to Reach Them 25 
Trout Ki>hitig Middle Park — Game, 

Bear, Deer, &c 20 

y>impah Hiver 31 

Game Reports 33 

In the Kastern Sii.tfH: The Barnstable 

an<l P.jinoinh Woods 247 

In Georgia 233 

lu the Keysiono Sliilo 211 



In the Golden State- 
On the Texas Pacific 77 

Northern California 77 

Around Sacramento 78 

Ojai Valley 79 

In the Lone Star Slate — 
The " Promised Land " — Northern 

Texas 63 

San Antonio — Waco 64 

Turkey Land 64 

Camp Hunt by Lazy Alic 65 

A fttr a Christinas Dinner 66 

In Oregon 66 

In the Pelican Stale — 

Varied and Well-Stocked Game Region 54 
Where Woodcock Congregate — Ducks, 

Geese, and Quail 55 

In Northwest Iowa 48 

In the Silver State 36 

In Western New York 95 

Lake Borge 88 

Lake Goneva 245 

Land of Dakota, the — 

Yankton 52 

Bismarck 63 

Land <.f Northtrn Michifian, the 169 

Lewis' Lake 22 

Long Island : Its Hunting and Fishing 

Grounds and Summer Resorts 39 

Lauientian Country, the 100 

Middle Florida 88 

Magog District, the 89 

Mussel Shoals, Tennessee River 247 

Neversink Country, the 240 

New Brunswick Salmon Rivers 99 

New Game Fields 49 

On the Chicago & Northwestern Railway 105 

Oswegalcliie Country, the 47 

Pleasant Places Along the Erie Railway. 9 

Porter's Lake 242 

Prince Arthitr'M Landing 102 

Routes of Florida Travel 61 

Salmon River 242 

SardiH 168 

Scenes and Places of Note on the Line of 

Wit-C'insm Central Railway 138 

SinnemahoniDg Country 79 

T,m Poid 81 

Trout Regii.riM o( North Carolina 73 

Twin Lakes in the " Nutmeg " State. ... 96 
Unlrequented Regions of the Adiron- 

dacks 165 

Where to Go t..r Grouse 42 

Where to i'.o for Wild Fowl 38 

Where to RoiikIi It 85 

White Perch Fishii.g 80 

Wilds of Ciinnapee — Looalitit's acces.-ible 

by the Ul.su r k Delaware Railroad. . . 21 
Ytl.owaione Val.ey, the 92 



THE 



SPORTSMAN'S ^ND TOURIST'S GUIDE 

— TO THE — 

PNTINGANDFISHING GROUNDS 



PLEASURE RESOHTS 

— OF THE — 

UNITED STATES s CAIADIAN rrtOVINCES, 



PLEASANT PLACES ALONG THE ERIE RAILWAY. 



A great part of the section traversed 
by the Erie Railway, within one hundred 
and fifty miles of New York, is famous 
for its hunting and fishing, and the points 
that are convenient centres for the vari- 
ous portions of this sportsman's Mecca 
are among the most popular. The lover 
of trouting, bass and pickerel fishing, will 
find ample places for the gratification of 
his passion among the creeks, lakes, and 
rivers accessible by this incomparalje line 
of travel; while the later season opens 
unrivalled haunts for the hunter, with his 
fowling piece or rifle, his setter or deer- 
hound. 

Sloatsburg is thirty-six miles from New 
York. There are three famous lakes con- 
veniently accessible from Sloatsburg — 
Truxedo (called by the natives " Duck 
Cedar"), Potague, and Cedar. Bass and 
pickerel fishing are the attractions. The 
first-named sheet of water is three miles 
distant; the second, one; the third, two. 
There are several first-class boarding- 
houses in the village, where accommoda- 
tions can be obtained — J. J. Rarbaro, 
T. J. Allen, 'and J. W. Ten Eyck, and 



others, at prices ranging from $0 to $10 
per Aveek. 

Southfields, forty-two miles from New 
York, is situated in the midst of the wild- 
est description of scenery. The brook 
that comes down fr.om the mountains at 
the left of the railroad, and empties into 
the Ramapo here, is the Wild-Cat Brook, 
a well-known trout stream. Manbasha 
and Truxedo lakes, stocked with black 
bass and pickerel, are three miles distant', 
in the mountains. In the vicinity are to 
be found quail, woodcock, grouse, rab- 
bits, &c. The road to the lakes are ex- 
cellent. Accommodations can be had in 
the village of Mrs. Yerreance, Pv.. M. 
Cole, and .at Walworth's Cottage, at $6 
to $8 a week. 

Turner's is forty-eight miles from New 
York, and mountains, plains, lakes, and 
streams combine to make it a picturesque 
healthful, and pleasurable resort. On the 
north rises the jagged summits of the 
Schuiiemunk Mountains, which cut off 
the Ramapo valley from further progress 
in that direction, and creep on toward 
the Hudson. From the top of the ever- 



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sluulowiug- hill on the north, a singularly 
beautiful and extensive outlook is obtain- 
ed, extending- to the eastern slope of the 
Fishkill Mountains, north to the Shaw- 
angunk, and south and west to the Jer- 
sey hills. Among the lakes that are ac- 
cessible from Turner's, arc the following, 
all of them stocked with bass or pickerel, 
or both: Three miles east is Slaughter 
Lake, one and a half miles long, and one 
mile wide; two miles east, Rumsey Lake, 
containing one hundred acres; three miles 
and a half west, Little Long Lake, one 
mile long, and one-half mile wide; four 
miles west, and higher than the last-men- 
tioned, Moubasha Lake, with eight hun- 
dred acres; three miles southwest. Round 
Lake, two hundred acres. Quail, wood- 
cock, ruffed grouse, rabbits, and other 
game are found in fair numbers in the 
vicinity. Excellent board and rooms are 
furnished by jNIrs. P. Turner and Mr. C. 
Ford, Jr., residing near the station, and 
A. Chase, Mrs. McKelvey, Peter Tur- 
ner, and N. Starkweather, living from 
one-eighth to one mile from the depot. 
Their prices range from $1 to $12 per 
week. 

Moiu'oc is fifty miles from Xcw York, 
and occupies an elevated position, the 
highest of any station on the road, east 
of the Sluiwangunk Mountains. It is lit- 
erally a region of lakes, and streams, and 
mountains, where both hunting and fish- 
ing can be enjoyed. There are one or 
two hotels and several boarding-houses 
where accommodations can be had at 
prices running from $6 to $15 per week. 

Florida is sixty-four miles from New 
York, by the Pine Island branch. A 
mile away, shimmering among the hills, 
is one of tlie famous lakes of the county, 
known as " The Mirror." The pidlcerel 
of this lake afford rare sport to the ang- 
er. The shooting is pretty good over 



quail, woodcock, rufled grouse, rabbits, 
and squirrels. Both the sportsman and 
the lover of Nature generally will find 
excellent accommodations at the Glen- 
mere House. Accommodations can also 
be had at the private houses of George 
Seeley (farm), N. D. Houston, W. M. 
Sutton, and Mrs. Round. They charge 
from $6 to $8 a week. 

Guymard is eighty miles from Xew 
York, where there is the finest summer 
boarding-house within many a mile. Its 
existence was rendered necessary by the 
demand for some place where guests 
could spend the summer in this moun- 
tain neighborhood. The house overlooks 
the fairest portion of the Neversink A''al- 
ley, and is on the shore of a large and 
picturesque lake, which has an outlet in 
a wild, deep gorge. Pickerel-fishing and 
boating are the summer pastimes, while 
the excellent shooting in the neighbor- 
hood will serve to while away the de- 
clining days of antumn. The price of 
board at the Guymard Springs House is 
$10 to $12 a week. The accomoda- 
tions are all that could be desired by the 
most fastidious. 

Port Jervis is eighty-eight miles from 
New York. East of the town, its sum- 
mit led up to by an easy wagon-road, is 
High Point, among the Shawangunks. 
There a lake of striking beauty lies, cool 
and rock-bound. The lake has been 
stocked with salmon, and is a favorite 
resort. There are other lakes in the vi- 
cinity of Port Jervis noted for their pick- 
erel-fishing. The Delaware River at this 
point furnishes unexcelled black-bass- 
fishing. The river was stocked with this 
game-fish six years ago, and they appear- 
ed last season in immense " schools," aiid 
thousands were taken at Port Jervis 
alone. This sport, in conncution witti the 
many excellent game covers in the vici- 



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nity, has added now attractions to the 
many in the neighborhood, and tlie Del- 
aware Valley bass-fisliing is destined to 
become as famous as its trouting. Bass 
weighing over four pounds were caught 
last season. First-class accommodations 
can be had at the Fowler House, on.e of 
the best-kept hotels on the Erie. For 
terras address Mr. T. F, Gratidin, the 
proprietor. The Delaware House, Union 
House, and Mr. H. Dutcher will also en- 
terta'ui guests in excellent style at from 
$8 to $10 per week. 

Monticello is one hundred and twelve 
miles from New York. It is connected 
with the Erie by the Port Jervis & Mon- 
ticello Railway, which traverses the pic- 
turesque Neversink Valley and th(! wild 
country adjacent to it. High hills rise 
on every side of the village, from which 
wide views of the rugged outlying coun- 
try may be enjoyed. 'V\w. atmosphere is 
pure and brsicing, and fevers of any kind 
never originate in this region. The air 
is peculiarly favorable to asthmatics and 
persons afflicted with kindred disenses. 
A mosquito would be a curi(jsity in this 
section. Heat never interferes with sleep, 
and neither dampness nor fog rendei even- 
ing or morning disagreeable. There are 
trout streams in the vicinity, and the 
best of bass-fishing in Pleasant I^ake, a 
beautiful sheet of water one mile distant. 
Besides the unsurpassed fishing found in 
vicinity of Monticello, the autumn sea- 
son brings abundance of game, partridges 
and other small game being especially 
plenty. Excellent and ample hotel and 
private boarding-house accommodations. 
About eight miles west of Monticello 
is the celebrated mountain resort. White 
Lake, The drive from Moticello to this 
place is one of the .''eatures of the region. 
The road leac'i over high hills l>y easy 
grades, and across deep valleys noisy 



with dashing brooks. Some of the finest 
views in the country are met Avith be- 
tween White Lake and Monticello. The 
lake lies at the feet of the moiuitains lift- 
ing up their heads about it, and the wa- 
ter is of great dej)th and purity, and is 
really one immense spring of living wa- 
ter. It formally abounded in trout of a 
size rarely attained Ijy that species of 
fish, it being on record that they have 
been caught in the lake weigiiing nearly 
nine pounds. 8ome years ago, however, 
pickerel were placed in these waters, and 
they exterminated the trout. To com- 
pensate for the loss of the latter, the lake 
was stocked with black ))ass, and the fa- 
vorite sport of l)lack-bass-fishing is now 
one of the great attractions of White 
Lake. Bass weighing from five to six 
pounds • are frequently taken, and the 
piazza columns of the Mansion House 
arc ornamented with the "counterfeit 
presentments " of several of these enor- 
mous fish, captured by guests. I'he na- 
tural attractions of the place, together 
with its wonderful healthfulness, have 
drawn people to it annually in increased 
numbers, until to-day few resorts equal 
it. The outlying country is much of it 
deep forest, where deer and other wild , 
game still " do congregate." In fact, the 
sojourner at White Lake finds the ad- 
vantages of civilization and the charms \ 
of the " vast wilderness " combining to 
make the place unlike any other resort 
of its class in the country. The Mansion 
House, overlooking the lake from an 
eminence a quarter of a mile from the 
village proper; Sunny Glade Hi. use, is 
a Ijeautiful spot at the foot of a high ele- 
vation of ground; Mrs. Kirk's White 
Lake House, on the brow of a hill that 
brings the entire landscape, in every di- 
rection, beneath the eye; the Van Werk 



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cupies au attractive and commancliug site 
on the road at the entrance to the vil- 
tage; and J. H. Colby's popular place, on 
the north shore of the lake, commanding 
a splendid view the entire body of water, 
are some of the leading boarding-houses. 
Boats, fishing tackle, kc, are furnished 
guests at each of these places; and they 
also run carriages to and from Monticel- 
lo trains during the season. 

A drive of seven miles from Port Jer- 
vis, over a road hard as cement and 
wonderfully smooth, running along the 
base of a lofty and precipitous range of 
mountains crowned with high perpendic- 
ular cliffs of slate rock, brings you to the 
village of Milford. The attractions of Mil- 
ford are, first, its eharraing'location ; sec- 
ond, the grand work Nature has done for 
it; and third — which is of most interest to 
our readers — its noted hunting and fish- 
ing grounds. Milford lies on a broad 
plateau, some two hundred feet above 
the Delaware River, commanding a view 
up the valley that is indescribably beau- 
tiful, taking in the mountains, valleys, 
plains, and forests of three States, the 
Delaware winding through the land- 
scape, and visible for miles. From the 
the bluff overlooking the river, the vil- 
lage of Port Jervis may be seen, and 
trains on the Erie, ascending the western 
slope of the Shawangunk, are plainly dis- 
cernible. High hills surround the village 
on three sides, over which shaded roads 
lead to the many interesting points in the 
vicinity. Long before the visitor ap- 
proaching Milford reaches the village, 
he will see a bold mountain standing 
prominently in the landscape before him. 
This is the Knob, which rises nearly a 
thousand feet above the place, a quarter 
of a mile distant. A foot-path leads to 
its summit, a favorite outlook, the coun- 
try for forty miles around being brought 



beneath the gaze. A stretch of meadow 
slopes from the base of the Knob to the 
Sawkill Creek, famous for trout, which 
runs between the mountain and the vil- 
age, and, tumbling over an ancient dam, 
winds about in the glen — a place of 
stately pines, picturesque islands, isolated 
walks and nooks among overhanging 
rocks, wooded knolls velvety* with the 
moss of centuries, miniature waterfalls 
tinkling here and there — a place of per- 
petual shade, and within ten minutes 
walk of the village. A mile from Mil- 
ford are the Sawkill Falls. After flow- 
ing for some distance at the bottom of a 
rocky gorge, whose perpendicular walls 
of rock rise in places one hundred feet 
above the water, the Sawkill Creek leaps 
from a ledge some twenty feet in height, 
then gathers itself in a glassy pool, and 
a short distance further on plunges mad- 
ly down the face of a perpendicular prc- 
cijjice a hundred feet, its volume broken 
into a thousand sparkling forms by jut- 
ing rocks, and lashed into seething, foam- 
ing fury at the bottom. From the large 
circular basin at the bottom of the wild 
gorge, the waters rush through a rocky 
pass, over which the spectator may easily 
step, and for half a mile form into noisy 
rapids and other beautiful cataracts, and 
finally emerge from the forest and sing 
on toward the river. The surroundings 
of Sawkill Falls are weird in the extreme, 
and the scene is one never to be forgot- 
ten. A mile below Milford begin the 
Cliffs, a wall of perpendicular rock two 
miles in length, towering eight hundred 
feet above the road leading down the 
valley at its feet. This seamed and crag- 
gy precipice, with its crown of cedar, 
spruce, and other evergreens, is easily 
accessible by a mountain road. Words 
are wanting to describe the grandeur of 
the scene that meets the eye from this 



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elevation. Three miles below Milford — 
reached either by the river road or au 
interior mountain road — are the Falls of 
Raymondskill. A mile above the juncr 
tion of the Raymondskill Creek with the 
Delaware, its waters, after numerous falls 
of from to twenty feet, rush down a slop- 
ing, jagged ledge of rock a hundred feet, 
not one continuous fall, but in a series of 
confused tumbles, the water being lashed 
and beaten into a mass of dashing foam. 
Besides these, the Bridal Yeil and hun- 
dreds of other popular retreats are to be 
met with on the Sawkill and Raymonds- 
kill, while the Vandermarck Creek, Deep 
Brook, and other streams present their 
share of beauties to the lover of the wild 
and sublime. All these streams are fa- 
mous trout brooks, of which there are 
several others within a few miles of Mil- 
ford. The Delaware River for a mile in 
front of Milford widens into a still, deep, 
eddying body of water, more like a lake 
than a river. A finer place for fishing 
or boating does not exist. During the 
black bass season, this part of the river 
is covered with the boats of those who 
love this most exciting piscatorial sport. 
Thousands of bass are taken annually at 
Milford, the fishing seeming to' get bet- 
ter every year. Sportsmen can obtain 
bait, boats, and attendants at any time 
in the village of " Gov." Nyce, John 
Slack, Ed. Loreaux, John Hans, and 
others. Their terms are from $1.50 to 
$3 a day, according to services required. 
There are many mountain lakes of great 
beauty in the vicinity of Milford, all well 
stocked with pickerel and other choice 
fish, among which may be mentioned the 
Sawkill, Little and Big .Brink, the two 
Log Tavern, and the two Walker ponds. 
Excursions to these lakes are popular pas- 
times of the Summer season. The hotel 
and boarding-house accommodations are 



ample and of the best. The terms are 
from $8 to $15 a week. J. J. Ryman's 
Maple Cottage is but two minutes' walk 
from Sawkill Glen. Everything'pertain- 
ing to the cottage is homelike, ailid adapt- 
ed to those seeking true rural ease and 
quiet. The rooms are large and well ven- 
tilated. Lovers of hunting and fishing 
will find in the proprieptor a congenial 
fellow sportsman, who is ready at all 
times to accompany them, and furnish 
all necessary equipments. For the ac- 
commodations offered, his terms are re- 
markably low, for which address him as 
above. 

It is an easy and* delightful drive of 
two hours from Port Jervis to Ding- 
man's Ferry; easy, because the road is so 
wonderfully hard and smooth; and de- 
lightful, because attended with so many 
varying charms. There is excellent hunt- 
ing and fishing throughout the entire sec- 
tion. Quail, woodcock, ruffed grouse, rab- 
bits, and squirrels are abundant; in the 
mountains deer and bears are quite nu- 
merous. Every stream, pond, or lake has 
an abundant supply of either trout, black 
bass, or pickerel. Dingman's Ferry is 
in the centre of a " wonder land." The 
endless chain of mountains that hems it 
about is traversed by streams of consid- 
erable size, which, rising in the highlands 
of the '* back country," are literally hurl- 
ed and tumbled over precipices and ob- 
structing rocks, from the time they leave 
the parent springs until they reach the 
level of the valley a thousand feet be- 
low. They have worn deep ravines and 
curious chambers in the rocks; hollowed 
out, by their continuous falUng, basins 
that are all but bottomless, where the 
waters seethe and boil, and the stoutest 
of heart and surest of step only dare ven- 
ture, and flow through chasms to the 
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a beam. In the vicinity of Dingmaii's 
Ferry six of these streams thuniler down 
the mountain. The Dingman Creek and 
tlie Adam Creek are particularly prolific 
in these grand works of Nature. The 
Factory Falls, Fulmer Falls, nigh Falls, 
and Silver-Thread Falls, on the former 
stream, are equal to any in the Catskills. 
They leap over perpendicular ledges, dash 
down rocky terraces, and break into 
great bodies of foam and spray against 
their confines of clilT or the ponderous 
boulders that lie heaped in their course- 
High Falls is a wild reach of stream two 
hundred feet in extent — a high perpen- 
dicular leap, then h gathering of the wa- 
ters, and then a thundering plunge down 
the slanting but angular face of the rocks. 
Factory Falls is a tumultuous dropping 
of the waters of the creek, wrought to 
their utmost fury by sharp projecting 
rocks and frequent precipices, until they 
writhe and contort themselves into such 
shapes as have gained them the name of 
Maniac Waters. Fulmer Falls are a se- 
ries of most picturesque cataracts. The 
Silver-Thread Fall is the crowning beau- 
ty of these mountain torrents. It is a 
thread of water but a few feet wide, but 
it comes with one continuous fall of a 
hundred and fifty feet down the face of 
the mountain, every drop of water being 
lashed into the whitest foam. Its bed 
is the solid rock, and dense forest trees 
prevent the sun from entering anywhere 
upon it. The falls on Dingmau Creek 
are within from one to three miles of the 
High Falls House, and are of easy ac- 
cess. Adam's Brook, on which there is 
a still greater number of natural curiosi- 
ties, is a mile from Dingman's Ferry. 
This Creek is five miles in length, and 
has a fall in that distance of nearly one 
fourth of a mile. The explorer of its 
wonders, starting in near its upper wa- 



ters, must follow it in its torturous and 
perilous course until it reaches the open 
valley, for so encompassed is it by rocks 
and mountains that it is almost impossi- 
ble to find a way out of the ravine. The 
White Montains have nothing surpass- 
ing Adam's Creek in grandeur and sub- 
limity. Like Dingmau and the other 
creeks in this vicinity, it is a famous 
trout stream. In common with all the re- 
sorts on the Deknvare, at Dingman's Fer- 
ry, there is excellent black-bass-fishing 
in the ^-iver. There are several lakes in 
the vicinity, stocked with pickerel. The 
High Falls House, one of the best-kept 
hotels in the country, can accommodate 
two hundred guests at $10 to $14 per 
week, with special inducement to season 
boarders. The proprietor, Dr. Fulmer, 
makes a specialty of looking after the in- 
terests of his sporting guests. He also 
runs a stage to Port Jervis, connecting 
with all traius. The Bellevue Hotel — a 
splendid house, in the French style — is 
also a popular resort. Terms $2 a day ; 
$8 to $12 a week. 

Shohola, one hundred and eight miles 
from New York, is situated in the centre 
of the hunting and fishing grounds of Sul- 
livan and Pike counties, where bear and 
deer abound and trout streams flow in 
almost every direction. It is beautifully 
situated among the mountains overlook- 
ing the Delaware River. There are at- 
tractions of the rarest to be found in the 
vicinity, principal among them being a 
glen which promises to become celebrated 
as a resort. The Shohola Creek, rising 
back in the wilderness of Pike county, 
threads one of the most picturesque, 
weird, and romantic vales in the State; 
forms stupendous cataracts and thunders 
in dim ravines; but nowhere does it com- 
bine all its varied features in an area that 
can be brought at once beneath the eye 



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until its dark waters have struggled to 
within a mile of Shohola station. The 
entrance to Sholiola Glen is but a few 
minutes' walk from the station. The 
wooded mountains are so close together 
at the entrance, that the trees on either 
side interlock their branches overhead, 
throwing a perpetual shade over the 
dark waters beneath. The Creek is very 
deep for a long distance above the dam, 
and perpendicular walls of rock, contain- 
ing cavernous depths, into which the wa- 
ter enters and forms miniature subterra- 
nean lakes, rise on either side, their sum- 
mits, far above, covered with the dense 
overhanging foliage. These rocky shores 
are appropriately called the Palisades. 
For three-quarters of a mile on up the 
creek, the spectator finds himself in the 
midst of such surroundings as Nature 
could mold only in her wildest moods. 
Sphinx's Head, Indian Head, and Cro' 
Nest are prominent and suggestive titles 
given to some few of the many natural 
rock-carvings in the vicinity. A wild spot 

— where the sun never yet penetrated, 
between rocks and tangled laurel and 
hemlock, and looking out on the deepest 
and darkest of pools, is called the Witch's 
Bourdoir. Near by is Wood Nymph 
Grotto. The Devil's Pass, Hell Gate, 
Cavern Cascade, Ptock of Terror, and 
numerous other localities in the Glen are 
well described by tJieir names. Shohola 
Creek is a celebrated trout stream, and 
a few miles from the station has one of 
the most picturesque falls in the section. 
A mile from Shohola is Panther Brook, 
on which is a charming glen, its chief at- 
traction being a waterfall some fifty feet. 
There are numerous lakes near Shohola 

— some in Pike county, and others in 
Sullivan county, across the Delaware — 
in which pickerel of the largest dimen- 
sions arc very abundant. Black -hass-fish- 



ing in the Delaware, and quail, ruffed 
grouse, squirrel, and rabbit shooting, are 
among the attractions at Shohola. The 
Shohola House furnishes splendid accom- 
dations at $7 to $8 a week. 

Six miles back of Shohola, reached by 
a drive that brings a magnificent sweep 
of country in view, is Highland Lake, 
where visitors find themselves eighteen 
hundred feet above the sea, and where 
they breathe the rarest of mountain air. 
Highland Lake is a mile long, and is 
famous for the fine flavor of its pickerel, 
and the great size of its perch. There 
are several other lakes in the neighbor- 
hood, all abundantly stocked with fish of 
different varieties,' and there are boats 
on all the lakes. The region is noted for 
its excellent hunting — woodcock, quail, 
ruffed grouse, sciuirrels, &c. This retreat 
is one where the true lover of Nature, 
the sportsman, the angler, and all who 
desire the companionship of tranquil sur- 
roundings may come and find their ideal. 
The Highland Lake House, a hotel that 
has few equals, entertains guests at $8 
to $10 per week. Boata, fishing tackle, 
&c., always ready. Write to Mr. H. C. 
Chapman, Eldred, Sullivan county, New 
York, for particulars. Accommodations 
can also be had of Chas. W. Paye, I. M. 
Bradley, and Mrs. J. A. Meyers in the 
vicinity of Eldred Village. 

Lackawaxen is one hundred and ten 
miles from New York. The attractions 
of the place are its excellent hunting and 
fishing, its splendid boating facilities, its 
pure air, its beautiful scenery, and the 
general wildness that pervades the sur- 
roundings. The game consists of deer, 
rabbits, ducks, snipe, and ruffed grouse. 
It is environed about by mountains, from 
which wild streams, teeming with spec- 
kled trout, come down through the most 
^ secluded glens, and over high pncipices 



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and tumbled rocks. On the summits are 
fair lalKCs, containing; different species of 
tlie finny tribe, mirroring still higher hills 
and fringing forests. Ilalfway between 
Laekawaxen and Shohola is Panther 
Brook, with its charming glen and cata- 
ract, and its splendid trout ! A mile 
above the station is Lord's Brook, which 
forms a number of handsome foils a short 
distance back in the woods, and adds its 
quota of trout to the demand of the 
neighborhood. On the top of the ridge 
across the Delaware, a mile from Laeka- 
waxen, is York Lake, a large expanse of 
crystal water, stocked with the choicest 
pickerel. Beyond the crag that stands 
at the junction of the Delaware and 
Laekawaxen valleys is Wescoline Lake, 
also famous for pickerel. Taylor's Brook, 
noted for trout, is five miles distant; the 
Shohola fishing-grounds, six miles; and 
Blooming Grove Park, twelve miles. The 
Williamson House is a first-class stop- 
ping-place. Its rooms are large and airy, 
with extended ceiling. From the piazzas 
of the hotel, one of the finest views in 
the Delaware Valley is obtainable. Its 
proprietor is ISIr. J. Williamson, a gen- 
tleman who "knows how to keep a ho- 
tel." Terms $7 a week for the season. 
The Delaware House is also a first-class 
stopping place, and occupies a splendid 
position. It is located on the plateau that 
lies at the meeting-place of the two rivers 
half a mile beyond the depot. It is but 
a few steps to the " Point " from the ho- 
tel, where the whole grand view up and 
down the river is brought before the vis- 
itor. The proprietor of the Delaware 
House, F. J. Ilolbert, is an excellent 
host, and for further information address 
him at Laekawaxen, Pike county, Penn- 
sylvania. Accommodations can also be 
obtained at the National Hotel, near the 
depot, besides there are several private 



families that entertain transient guests 
at reasonable prices. 

Six miles west of Laekawaxen is Pine 
Grove Station, near which are several 
most excellent trout streams. The fish 
are abundant, and though not over large, 
show their 'game qualities by the way 
they test the streng^i of the angler's 
tackle. 

Narrowsburg, one hundred and twen- 
ty-two miles from New York, is located 
in such scenery as has already been de- 
scribed in the Delaware Valley. There 
are streams abounding in trout, lakes 
filled with pickerel, forests in which deer, 
bear, and ruffed grouse are found, and 
mountains that afford most magnificent 
views and where tlie purest of air can be 
inhaled. The Murray House is a large, 
sightly hotel, its every surrounding being- 
neatness itself. It is kept by Messrs. C. 
J. & C. H. Murray. 

Cochcton, a few miles from Narrows- 
burg, offers many inducements to the 
sportsman, the angler, and tourist. It is 
in the centre of a fine hunting district, 
abounding in quail, woodcock, pheasants, 
rabbits, &c., with a few deer and bears 
with which to vary the sport. In the 
vicinity are several fine trout streams, 
and in the mountains, within four miles 
of the station, are numerous lakes afford 
ing excellent pickerel fishing. Among 
the trout streams ffre Calkins' Brook, 
Bush's Creek, Tyler Brook, Beaver-Dam 
Creek, and Mitchell Brook, all near by. 
Lake Huntington and Mitchell Lake are 
noted places, and have good road leading 
to them from the station. At Lake Hun- 
tington, four miles distant, Peter Fah- 
renz has an excellent house. Trout of 
the largest size and game to the last are 
taken from this lake. There are several 
excellent places in and about Cochecton 
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dations. DeWitt Knapp's Hotel, near 
tlie station, has a fii'st-class reputation. 
There is good fishing and bootuig in the 
Delaware near Mr. Knapp's house, and 
pleasant drives and walks. 

About four miles from Cochecton is 
the mountain village of Fosterdale, in the 
J midst of good hunting and fishing, and 
the wildest description of scenery. John 
Barwig has a fine boarding-house there. 
There are also several farm-houses in the 
neighborhood that accommodate visitors 
in good style. 

Three miles from Cochecton is the vil- 
lage of Tyler Hill. It occupies an ele- 
vated position, affording a splendid view 
of the country up and down the Dela- 
ware. Swago Lake, a charming sheet 
of water, is near by, affording good pick- 
erel-fishing, and a number of creeks are 
noted for their trout. 

Callicoon, one hundred and thirty-six 
miles from New York, is located in a 
portion of the Delaware Yalley and its 
adjacent territory, that needs only to be 
visited to be appreciated. The immedi- 
ate surroundings of Callicoon are of the 
wild and rugged character that prevails 
in the upper Delaware Highlands. Cal- 
licoon village is the centre of one of the 
famous trout regions of the Delaware 
Valley. The Callicoon Creek, which en- 
ters the Delaware a short distance below 
the station, threads the back wilderness 
and a splendid farming section. Along 
its entire course, from the hills on either 
side, tributary streams flow into it at 
short intervals. The main stream and its 
feeders are natural trout brooks, and all 
the season long they afford royal sport 
to the angler. These streams are with- 
in an area of five miles from the station. 
On the Pennsylvania side of the river is 
Hollister Creek. For two miles from the 
the river this creek flow through a wild 



and narrow gorge, and finds the level of 
river by a scries of wonderful waterfalls. 
The whole country roundabout affords 
good shooting over quail, ruffed grouse, 
rabbits, and other game. In the moun- 
tains deer and bears are started occasion- 
ally. Numerous lakes cluster in the hills 
on both sides of the river, the famous 
Bethel township lakes, in Sullivan coun- 
ty, being within easy reach. In Wayne 
county, Galilee Lake, Duck Harbor, 
Swago Lake, and several others are near 
and convenient of access. Bass, pickerel, 
and perch fishing are the attractions of 
these waters. The whole section is a fine 
.game district, and excellent shooting can 
had be in season. Ruffed grouse, wood- 
cock, rabbits, and squirrels are generally 
abundant, and a few deer and bears are 
still running loose through the woods and 
over the mountains Mr. Minard, of the 
Minard House, near the station, enter- 
tains guests at $L50 per day, less for a 
longer term. There are many farm and 
private boarding houses in the neighbor- 
hood that will take the wayfiiring sports- 
man in at from $6 to $8 a week. 

Hancock is one hundred and sixty 
miles from New York. The Mohawk or 
West Branch of the Delaware River 
rises on the southern slope of a spur of 
the Catskills, Schoharie county. New 
York. The Popacton or East Branch 
has its head in the wilderness of the up- 
per portion of Ulster county. The two 
branches run parallel across Delaware 
county, being divided by a ridge of moun- 
tains eleven miles wide, and meet around 
the base of a great dome-like hill at 
Hancock. The village is surrounded by 
the loftiest elevations of the Delaware 
Highlands, all of which are heavily wood- 
ed, and at no point along the river is 
the scenery more grand. The villages 
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stations on the Eric between Hancock 
and Callicoon, and are great fishing and 
hnuting centres. Hancock is literally 
surronnded by tront streams, there being- 
no less than eleven within convenient 
reach. Cadosia, Heeds, Sands, Shehaw- 
ken, Tront, Pease Eddy and Tyler Creeks 
are among them. The Beaver Kill is 
o\\\f twelve miles distant. There are 
several fine lakes in the vinicity that af- 
ford good black bass, pickerel, and perch 
fishing. There is fine shooting over the 
usnal variety of game found in this sec- 
tion. Quiet a number of deer and bears 
are in the mountains and forests. The 
Hancock House, Mrs A. Hall, and Mr. 
Sheppard will provide for your creature 
comfort at $6 to $8 a week. 

The Honesdale Branch of the Erie 
Railway extends from Lackawaxcn to 
Honesdale. The country through which 
it runs is wild and rugged, skirting for 
most of the distance the famous game re- 
gion of Pike county, Pennsylvania. Five 
miles from I^ackawaxen is Rowland's, in 
the vicinity of which are numerous trout 
streams and lakes, whose pickerel have 
placed them among the finest fishing re- 
sorts in the country. Tink and Wisco- 
liue lakes are within easy reach. The 
hunter will find quail, woodcock, phea- 
sants, rabbits, &c., in fair numbers. 

Millville, seven miles from Lackawax- 
cn, is where the Blooming Grove Creek 
enters the Lackawaxen. Near Millville is 
the large domain of the Blooming Grove 
Park Association. The property of the 
Association consists of twelve thousand 
acres of wild mountain and valley lands, 
well adapted to the rearing and preser- 
vation of game. The region is as roman- 
tic and healthy as the Adirondacks, and 
it is destined to become as great a resort 
for sportsmen as the wilds of Northern 
New York. Within its boundaries there 



are several miles of trout streams, and 
eight beautiful lakes stocked with black 
bass and other game-fish. On the high 
bank of the clearest and fairest of this 
chain of lakes a club house has been 
built and has accommodations for eighty 
people. The point is fifteen hundred feet 
above tide-water, and it is froc from ma- ^^ 
laria and mosquitoes. The club possesses 
a valuable charter from the Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania, enabling it to 
enact its own laws for the rearing and 
preservation of fish and game, and cloth- 
ing it park-keepers with power to arrest 
trespasses. The association is dual in 
character, and admits ladies to all of its 
privileges. Anglers and hunters take 
their wives and children into the woods 
with them. The club-house and grounds 
alTord every facility for social enjoyments. 
In the parlor their is a grand piano, and 
the room is large enough for dancing. 
A billiard-room and a bowling-alley are 
attached to the house, and the lake is 
well supplied Avith boats. An archery 
club has been organized by the wives and 
daughters of the members, and competi- 
tions with the long-bow form a delight- 
ful feature of park-life. Seven hundred 
acres of the forest have been enclosed 
with stone and wire fence, and within it 
elk, deer, and other game are bred, and 
the shooting consists of deer, black bear, 
woodcock, ruU'ed grouse, hares, rabbits, 
ducks, and snipe. From the breezy bal- 
conies of the club-house a magnificent 
view is obtained, and the eye wanders 
over lakes and hills, and in the dim dis- 
tance rests upon the top of the Catskill 
Mountains. Board for members and their 
invited guests is furnished at the moder- 
ate price of $10 each per week, and the 
spot is so attractive and so easy of ac- 
cess that it cannot fail to become popular. 
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country are members of the association, 
John Avery, Esq., 31 Park Row, New 
York, is secretary, 

Kimble's, eleveu miles from Lackawax- 
en, is in tlie midst of trout streams, bass 
lakes, and game preserves. Here some 
of the most noted disciples of Nimrod 
and Walton make their home, and find 
rare sport in the woods and among the 
mountains, 

Ilawley is one hundred and twenty- 
five miles from New York, and all around 
it the sportsman will find the finest of 
lakes and noted game haunts. It is lo- 
cated In the centre of the great Faupack 
game region, famous for deer, bears, and 
all kinds of small game. Trout streams 
flow in every direction. The Wallen- 
paupack River and its many tributiiries 
afford excellent sport. The headwaters 
of this stream interlock those of the Le- 
high, far back in the Pocono Wilderness, 
and enters the Lackawaxen at Hawlcy. 
About a mile and a half from Hawley a 
series of the most magnificent waterfalls 
commences. The first plunge of the wa- 
ter is over a precipice seventy-five feet, 
and from there on to the last fall, a half 
mile above the mouth of the stream, the 
descent is two hundred and fifty feet. 
The grand fall, a portion of it discerna- 
ble from the railroad, but mostly hidden 
by a cluster of mills and factories, is about 
eighty feet high and fifty in width, the 
ledge over which it thunders having been 
worn in horseshoe form. Lakes teeming 
with black bass, pike, pickerel, and other 
species of the finny tribe are of easy ac- 
cess from the village. Lake Jones, one 
of the greatest black bass lakes of this 
■whole section, is six miles from Hawley, 
over a splendid road. By alighting at 
the upper depot, passengers find them- 
selves near the Keystone House, a well- 
kept hotel, where accommodations can 



1)0 had at a moderate consideration, and 
where guides for either hunting or fish- 
ing are provided. 

Honesdalo is one hundred uud thirty- 
five miles from New York, in the most 
interesting part of Northeastern Penn- 
sylvania. There is not a prettier place 
in the country than this retreat among 
the hills. It is the centre of one of the 
finest bass-fishing regions in the country. 
There are one hundred and nfty-four na- 
tural lakes in Wayne county, and the 
best of them are in the neighborhood of 
Honesdalo. Black ))uss weighing five 
pounds were taken from some these lakes 
last season. There is trout-fishing on tlic 
ui)per waters of the Lackawaxen and 
Dyberry. All kinds of game abound in 
the vicinity. White's H(»llow, thirteen 
miles distant, is a noted hunting-ground, 
abounding in ruffed grouse, quail, squir- 
rels, rablnts, and a small si)rinkling of 
large game; panthers are occasionally 
seen, and bear " disputes " are not un- 
common. Two miles and a lialf fi-om 
Honesdalo, on Dyberry Creek, is Martin 
Kimble's old-time homestead, where ex- 
cellent accommodations can be had at a 
very low figure, and where finc! shooting 
and fishing is near at hand. There are 
several excellent hotels and boa,r(iing- 
houses in the neighborhood. 

The Newburgli Short Cut (a branch 
of the Erie, which leaves the main line a 
mile east of Turner's) opens up a section 
of country that is wonderful in many re- 
spects. No locality in the State possesses 
a more varied physical structure, its sys- 
tem of lakes, mountains, valleys, and 
streams ])eing one peculiar in itself. 

Central Valley, forty-eight miles from 
New York, occupies one of the fair- 
est sites that widen from the bases of the 
sun-ounding hills. Within a radius three 
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eleven lakes, among thcra Summit Lake, 
stocked with black bass and pickerel, and 
the fishing is always fu'st-class. Summit 
Lake House furnishes excellent accom- 
modatious, and also boats, tackle, kc, 
for the guests. Game — woodcock, quail, 
rulfed gsouse, squirrels, &c. — abounds in 
the surrounding fields and iu the heavily 
wooded stretches adjacent to the house, 
and many of the best known shots of the 
cities annually visit these covers. The 
terms at the Summit Lake House are $8 
to $10 per week, accordiug to location 
of room and length of stay. Carringes 
connect with all trains to and from Is'cw 
York. 

Highlands ]\Iills is fifty miles from 
New York, and among all the lakes be- 
longing to the Highland chain, none is 
found presenting in itself or its surround- 
ings more attractions than the one which 
gives prominence to Highland Mills as a 
pleasure resort, knowu as Cromwell's 
Ijake, one and a half miles from the 
station. It is twelve hundred feet above 
t)ie sea, two and a half miles around, and 
lies a perfect gem among the hills. The 
lake is stocked with game-fish, and the 
the boating is unsurpassed. The Lake 
House offers accommodations at $1 to 
$14 a per week, with special terms for 
the season. 

Craigsville is on the Newburg Branch 
of the Erie, fifty-six miles from New 
York, where there is excellent fishing iu 
the ponds and streams near the village, 
and good shooting in the surrounding 
fields and woods. The scenery here is 
among the finest in the Highland region. 
There are several private families that 
take boarders at from $5 to $8 a week. 

Warwick, sixty-four miles from New 
York, on the Warwick Branch, is in the 
vicinity of the Drowned Lands, covering 
seventeen tiiousand acres of this part of 



Orange county, and twenty-five hundred 
acres of Sussex county, New Jersey. It 
is a noted resort for woodcock in this 
section of the country. The best of par- 
tridge, rabbits, and squirrel shooting can 
also be had in the adjacent fields and 
forests, while the lakes near by are fa- 
mou3 for their pickerel. Board ranges 
in price iu private families at $6 to $10 
a week. 

Ellenville is located twenty-two miles 
from the Erie Railway at Middletown, 
and is about ninety miles from New 
York. It is the terminus of the Ellen- 
ville Branch of the Midland Railroad, 
and is convenient to the famous hunting 
and fishing grounds of Sullivan county. 
It is the headquarters of many sports- 
men, who have organized a game protec- 
tive society. They have taken efficient 
measures to stock the lakes and streams 
with game-fish and protect the game in 
the vicinity. Within a short distance are 
numerous lakes, affording splendid fish- 
ing, among them Lake Mohouk. .The 
waters of the lake are gathered in a rock- 
bound hollow in the Shawangunks, a 
crystal spring, in fact, twelve hundred 
feet above the Hudson. 

Deposit, Broome county, is one hun- 
dred and seventy-six miles from New 
York, and good quail, woodcock, ruffed 
grouse, squirrel, and rabbit shooting is 
to had iu the neighborhood. 

Hemlock Lake, noted for its excellent 
trout-fishing and the fine ruffed grouse 
and squirrel shooting to be in the vicini- 
ty, is six miles from Livonia, on the Ro- 
chester Branch. A line of stages run 
between Livonia and the lake. 

Crooked Lake is a large expanse of 
water, some twenty-two miles long, and 
abounds iu salmon trout, pickerel, black 
bass,strawberry bass, whitefish, perch,&c. 
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The Spring Grove House is on the east 
shore of tlic hike, six miles from Ham- 
moiidsport. 

Eldred is in the vicinity of good deer 
and ruffed grouse shooting and fine trout- 
fishing. Isaac M. Bradley, who keeps 
the "latch-string out" for sojourning 
sportsman, promises guests that he will 
put them on a deer trail or pilot them to 
streams where they can fill their creels 
with speckled trout. 

THE WILDS OF ANNAPE. 



LOCALITIES ACCESSIBLE BY THE ULSTER & 
DELAWARE RAILROAD. 



The Ulster & Delaware Railroad ex- 
tends from Iloudout, on the Hudson Riv- 
er^ to Stamford in Delaware county, a 
distance of seventy-four miles, connecting 
at Rondout with trains on the Hudson 
River Railroad and the river steamboats. 
Good shooting along the whole line. 

We know of no place within a reason- 
able distance of New York that affords 
better ruffed grouse-shooting than can 
be enjoyed in the Wilds of Cannape, an 
extensive tract of uncultivated and un- 
broken land lying in the northeast cor- 
ner of Ulster county. To reach the lo- 
cality the sportsman must leave the cars 
at Shokan, some eighteen miles from 
Rondout, thence private conveyance to 
a place known as Watson Hollow, be- 
tween six and seven miles from Shokan. 
Inquire for C. Rockwell, and stop over 
night with him. He is thoroughly ac- 
quainted with the grounds, and Avill give 
all needed information. If he cannot go 
himself he will procure a guide for you 
that will take you to the game, and 
very likely put you on the trail of a deer 
or bear, or perhaps both, besides giving 
you an opportunity to have a little fight 
with a panther or wild cat, for they all 



abound in this section. The place is not 
generally known to sportsmen, and com- 
paratively but little hunted over. The 
country is decidedly rough, and full of 
fine scenery. Board at hotel $2. a dfiy, 
at boarding-houses, $5 to $8 a wet,k. 
Guides charge $2 a day, and teams can 
be had for $5 a day. 

Mount Pleasant is twenty-four miles 
from Rondout, and in a neighborhood 
where the visitor will find use for either 
rod or gun. There are some fine trout 
streams in the vicinity, among them the 
Beaverkill and Esopns, that afford good 
sport. Pheasants, rabbits, squirrels, &c., 
are plenty, and bears not uncommon. 
Board $5 to $8 a week. 

There is good shooting around Phre- 
nicia, twenty-seven niHes from Rondout. 
The streams at Stony Clove, abounding 
in small trout, are of easy access. Stages 
leaves Pha3nicia on Mondays and Wed- 
nesdays for Hunter, in Greene county, 
where there are some excellent hunting 
and fishing grounds. Ruffed grouse and 
rabbits are plenty. Board, 'S!! to $1.50 
a day, $5 to $7 a week. 

In the neighborhood of Fox Hollow, 
thirty-two miles from Rondout, there are 
ruffed grouse, wild pigeons, squirrels, rab- 
bits, &c. Board from $i to |;1.50 a 
day; $5 to $8 a week. 

There is excellent shooting and trout- 
fishing in the neighborhood of Shanda- 
kin, thirty-three miles from Rondout. 
There are woodcock, ruffed grouse, and 
other feathered game, with plenty of rab- 
bits and squirrels, and a few bears, in the 
fur line ; and trout in abundance in the 
Beaverkill, Esopus, and other streams 
close at hand. Board can be had at from 
$1 to $2 a day; guides charge $2 and 
teams $5 a day. 

Big Indian, thirty-six miles from Ron- 
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grounds. Euffecl grouse, squirrels, and 
rabbits, arc abundant, and woodcock 
moderately so. There are some bears, 
also, in this section, and sportsmen often 
start them, or they the sportsmen. To 
those found of fox-hunting, this locality 
will afibrd them sport. Board can be 
at from $4 to $5 a week ; guides |i2 a 
day, and teams $5. 

Griffin's Corners, forty-four miles from 
Rondout, is in a location where grouse, 
rabbits, squirrels, and small game are 
plenty, and some few bears can be added 
to the list. There are several streams 
in-the vicinity abounding in trout and 
other fish. Board, from $1 to |2 a day; 
teams from $3 to $6. 

There is good trout-fishing and an 
abundance of small game in the neigh- 
borhood of Dean's Corners, forty-eight 
miles from Eondout. Occasionally a 
deer is met with. Stages leave Dean's 
Corners on Tuesdays and Saturdays for 
Lumberville, Shavertown, and Pepacton, 
at either of which points the shooting is 
good. Board from $1 to $1.50 a day. 

Some good shooting can be had in 
neighborhood of GiFooa. Leave the cars 
at Moresvilie, sixty-five miles from Ron- 
dout, thence stage to destination. 

GAME AND FISF TN ULSTER 
AND SULLIYAN OUNTIES. 



LOCALITIES ACCESSIBLE BY THE NEW YORK 
& OSWEGO MIDLAND RAILROAD. 



Tliis line connects with the Erie at 
Middlctown, thus enabling sportsmen to 
reach the celebrated hunting and fishing 
grounds of Sullivan and (western part) 
Ulter counties. It runs tlirough a wild 
and romantic region, abounding in mag- 
nifient scenery. 

In the country surrounding Colches- 
ter there are woodcock, ruffed grouse, 



rabbits, and many trout streams that 
will yield good returns. 

Splendid blackbass-fishing is to be 
had in Marston Pond, near Wurtsburg. 
There is also some pretty good shooting 
to be had in this section if one is willing 
to work for it. The scenery is fine. 

Shin Creek, eleven miles from Morss- 
ton, is a fine fronting centre. There is 
good shooting all through this section. 

Long Pond is about ten miles from 
Westfield, and large trout are very abun- 
dant in the ponds and adjacent streams. 
The country is made up of hills and for- 
ests, in which, occasionally, a deer is cap- 
tured, but the ruffed grouse-shooting is 
good. There is also middling good wood- 
cock and snipe shooting, and woodducks 
are often found in the ponds scattered 
through the woods. 

Bloomsburg is a good point for wood- 
cock and ruffed grouse; there is also fair 
quail-shooting in the neighborhood. M, 
H. Seager will accommodate sportsmen. 

lewis' lake. 
This lake cannot be surpassed as a 
pleasant resort; It- is situated on the 
highest range of the Allegheny ]\roun- 
tains, accessible by railroad to ]\Iuucy, 
Pennsylvania, then by stage coach twen- 
ty miles up the mountains — one of the 
most delightful rides imaginable. The 
place has not been very widely known 
to the pleasure seeker until lately. Some 
fine cottages have recently been built, 
and more will soon be erected. The 
lake covers about three hundred and fifty 
acres, and contains brook trout, lake 
trout, and a variety of other species. 
The brook trout fishing is to be found 
in the many small mountains wliicli head 
close by; but the rarest sport is the duck 
shooting, there always being an abund- 
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A GOOD RENDEZVOUS. 

SHOOTING AND FISHING GROUNDS EASY OF 
ACCESS FROM THE NATIONA*L CAPITAL. 



Although there is not much shooting 
and fishing in the District of Cohmibia 
proper, yet it is an excellent starting 
point for the game fields and angling 
waters of the adjacent States of Mary- 
land and Virginia. 

The Eastern sportsman can find no 
better rendezvous for good shooting dur- 
ing the Fail, Winter, and Spring months 
than Washington. Lines of railroads 
and steamboats centre there, over which 
the hunter can be taken in a few hours' 
time to the finest quail, ruff"ed grouse, 
wild turkey, deer, and duck shooting 
grounds east of the Alleghany Moun- 
tains. The Potomac River and Chesa- 
peake Bay are the duck-hunters' Para- 
dise in cold weather. Every morning the 
crack of heavy ten-gauge ducking guns 
is waited back from the river to the Cap- 
ital, and flocks of teal, shufflers, and red- 
neck ducks may be seen flying over the 
river between Washington and Alexan- 
dria, or far back over the smooth waters 
of the Eastern Branch. Along the edges 
of the immense marshes that fringe the 
Virginia shore, small narrow skiffs, con- 
taining the gunner and his pusher, glide 
along at the break of day, and the duck 
and widgeon fall easy victims to him who 
disturbs them in their search after early 
breakfasts. In the middle of the river 
flocks of teal and shufflers swim about 
olitaining food from the long grasses 
which cover the water at low tide. 

The Potomac Pviver, from Washington 
to its mouth, a distance of about one 
hundred and ten miles, with its numer- 
ous creeks and inlets on both the Mary- 
land and Virginia fchores, has always 
been a favorite resort for wild-fowl dur- 



ing their Spring and Autumn migra- 
tions, but more especially at the latter 
season, when they seem to be attracted 
to these waters by the abundance of food 
found on the flats and shoals where they 
stop for rest and to satisfy the cravings 
of hunger casued by their protracted 
flights through more northern regions. 

The Potomac — one of the most beauti- 
ful rivers of the North American conti- 
nent — off the City of Washington, is 
about a mile wide, but gradually expands 
until its mouth is reached, where it is 
twelve miles in width. From Washing- 
ton to Aquia Creek the water is fresh; 
but about that point it begins to grow 
brackish, and a few miles further on is 
Blackiston's Island, where it is quite salt 
Pages might be filled and many readers 
wearied should an attempt be made to 
enumerate the many favorite duck-shoot- 
ing points on the river. On tlie Virginia 
side of the Potomac, the nearest feeding- 
ground of the ducks is in an extensive 
cove just beyond Gravelly Point and near 
the Four-Mile Run, half way between 
Washington and Alexandria. A short 
distance below Alexandria is Hunting 
Creek, a favorite resort. Then comes 
Mount Vernon, with its extensive grass- 
covored flats. Poag Creek, Guuser Cove, 
and Crauey Island are the next places, 
and this brings us to Occoquaw Bay, 
where the Valisneria is plentiful, and can- 
vas-backs are generally quite abundant 
in that locality. Freestone, Cockpit, and 
Brent's Points are favorable projections 
for shooting ducks as they pass from one 
cove to another. Aquia Creek, Marl- 
borough Point, Upper Maehodoc Creek, 
Rosier's Creek, Bluff Point, Mattox 
Creek, Faine's Point, Cur^Yinan Bay, 
Nomini Bay, Hollis Mprsbes, Lower Ma- 
ehodoc River, Elbow Point, Jackson's 
Creek, Ragged Point, Yeocomico River 



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and the uumerous inlets and coves in 
that vicinity, Travis Point, Coan River, 
with its creeks and shoals, Presley's, Cu- 
bitus, and Hall's creeks, and finally the 
Little Wicomico River, empting into the 
Potomac a few miles below Chesapeake 
"Bay is readied, are all Avell-knowu as 
desirable feeding-grounds for water-fowl. 
On the Maryland side of the Potomac, 
commencing at Oxen Creek, between the 
City of Washington and Alexandria, and 
then in Broad Creek, just below that city, 
ducks are always found inseaon. Fol- 
lowing on down the river, are reach- 
ed Ilatton's Point, Piscataway Creek, 
Chapman's Point, Pamunky Creek, Mat- 
tawoman Creek, Wade's Bay, Chicomux- 
en Cx'eek, Smith's Point, Lower Thomas 
Point, Nanjcmoy Creek, Blossom and 
Windmill Points, Port Tobacco River, 
Pope's Creek, Lower Cedar Point, Pic- 
cowaxton Creek, Swan Point, Neal's 
Creek, the Wicomico River, St. Catha- 
rine's Sound, Bullock's, St. Catharine's, 
St. Margaret's, and Blackiston's Islands, 
and then St. Clement's Bay, Kaywood's 
and Higgin's Points, St. George's Creek 
just below Piuey Point, the St. Mary's 
River, with its numerous creeks and in- 
lets, Calvert Bay, and finally Point Look- 
out, at the mouth of the river. Along 
the whole course of the river, in the 
creeks and shoal waters upon either side, 
the ducks, geese, and swan find the va- 
rious marine plants and grasses, water 
insects, Crustacea, &c., upon which they 
feed and grow fat. 

. Generally the ducks begin to arrive 
at the localities enumerated from their 
breeding-grounds in the North, between 
the middle and latter part of October, 
when some of the smaller species, such as 
the buffle-head, make their appearance, 
and they are in the course of three or 
four weeks follovrcd by the mallard, dusky 



duck, pin-tails, bald-pates, green-winged 
teal, blue-winged teal, red-head, and last- 
ly, the famous canvas-back; but the lat- 
ter never abundant until severe weather 
sets in. The swan and geese arrive about 
the same time as the canvas-backs, and 
and they are in the course of three or 
soon distribute themselves over the Ches- 
apeake Bay and the neighboring rivers 
that empty into it. When the birds first 
arrive they are very poor, and their flesh 
vas no desirable flavor on account of 
their protracted flights. A few weeks' 
rest on their chosen Southern feeding- 
grounds, and the abundance of their fa- 
vorite food which they procure, soon 
puts them in excellent condition, and 
they become tender and juicy. 

The marshes and low lands bordering 
on the Patqxent River, in Maryland, are 
generally filled with snipe about the 1st of 
April, and sportsmen from Baltimore and 
Washington usually have some delight- 
ful shooting there about that time, a good 
shot often bagging as many as fifty to 
seventy-five birds in a day's tramp over 
the meadows and marshes, from which 
the reeds and grass are always burned in 
Febuary, preparatory to snipe shooting. 

Good white-perch fishing can be had 
on the Upper Potomac in the neighbor- 
hood of the chain bridgeand Little Falls. 
They usually ascend the river with the 
shad, and from the 1st to the 20th of 
April bite ravenously at common angle 
worms. They remain in the deep holes 
of the Upper Potomac where the bottom 
is very rocky, until about the 1st of May, 
and then return to the salt water, but are 
caught at all times lower down the river, 
their favorite haunts being in the neigh- 
borhood of Aquia Creek, where the wat. 
er begins to get brackish, and between 
that point and Blackiston's Island they 
are always plentiful. Many black bass 



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are taken at the Falls, running all the 
way from one pound up to four. Excel- 
lent quail shooting can be had in the ad- 
joining counties of Maryland and Vir- 



IN COLORADO. 

TROUT STREAMS ^ND HOW TO REACH THEM 

Most if not all the trout streams here 
mentioned afford better fishing during 
July and August, and even in the early 
part of September, than they do in June. 
During June the snows on the moun- 
tains melting keep the streams too full ; 
the fish will not bite so readily as they 
do when the streams are lower. The St. 
Vrain River, almost anywhere among the 
foothills, or even when it has reached 
the valley, i. e., plains, gives fine fishiug. 
Trout weighing three pounds are fre- 
quently caught in it. The best fishing, 
however, in this stream is to be found in 
the canyon of the river. This is about 
sixteen miles from Longmont on the Col- 
orado Central Railroad. A fair road 
leads from Lringmont to the canyon. 
Anyone who wishes to fish the St. Vrain 
at this point, must camp out. A wagon 
containing the outfit cannot be driven 
up the canyon; it is therefore necessary 
to pack your traps on a mule or horse. 
Doing this, the narrow trail which leads 
up the canyon may be easily gone over. 
] t is only necessary to go from six to ten 
miles in this way, and any one who will 
take the small trouble mentiontd will be 
fully rewarded, both by the enjoyment 
of the trip and scenery, and the pleasure 
he will have in the fishing. The impos- 
sibility of going up the canyon in a wag- 
on has prevented the stream from being 
fished much at this point, and so the 
sport remains excellent and will do so 
for years to come. 

The " Big Thompson " which takes its 



rise near the foot of Long's Peak, always 
repays the angler. The readiest way of 
reaching it from Denver, is via the Col- 
orado Central Railroad to Longmont, 
and a stage journey of thirty-six miles 
from that point through the Rocky 
Mountains to one of the loveliest spots in 
the mountains, or indeed, for the matter 
of that, in the whole country, namely, 
Estes Park. Here, if you wish to live 
as comfortably as you do at home, you 
may stay at the Este's Park Hotel, thor- 
oughly well furnished and kept in the 
best maimer. If you stay there you will 
have the privilege of fishing in the 
" Meadows," a lovely tract, without a 
bush to interfere with line or tiy, and 
which is kept for the use of the guests 
of the house. Rut camp out, make the 
Park your headquarters from which to 
take excursions in various directions. 
Ten to fifteen miles down the Thompson, 
where you must be content to go with 
such things as you can carry yourself, 
you will find fish that will repay you for 
all yonr pains. Thei-e is some sort of 
cabin about ten miles down the stream 
from the P: r>, which was erected ex- 
pressly for the benefit of fishermen. The 
jS'oith Fork of the Thompson is reached 
by a pack trail, and is ten miles from the 
hotel. Here is a good cabin Avhich will 
hold several persons, and which can be 
used free of charge by all Avho choose to 
do so. Take your cooking utensils, 
which should be few and simple, and 
some canned fruits and vegetables, and 
you may spend ten days most pleasantly 
fishing. It is said that blue grouse are 
to be fouiui there. 

The upper canyon of the Thompson, 
in Willow Park, will amply repay a visit 
to it. It is six miles from Estes Park, 
and is reached by a wagon road. Take 
your teut with you, or, if you prefer, stay 



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at Sprague's ranclie. Do not attempt to 
fish in Willow Park; you will be devoured 
by bufialo (lies. Go at once to the can- 
yon, which is three miles from Sprague's. 
Here the Thompson must be fished by 
wading. The sides of the canyon are 
mostly granite rock, rising almost per- 
pendicularly from the water, and so for- 
bid any operations from the bank. 
Here, upon a favorable day, you may 
take as many fish from ten to twelve 
inches in length as you wish to carry 
back with you. Another favorite place, 
which seems to furnish inexhaustible 
sport, is Twin Lakes, in the very heart 
of the mountains. This place may be 
reached by stage from Colorado Springs. 
It is a charming sjjot, and furnishes a 
delightful camping ground. The fish 
are not large, but may be caught in 
numbers. 

Through Middle Park in the northern 
part of the State flow the Blue River 
and Williams' Fork. In the latter, it is 
said the fishing is good, and now and 
then a three-pounder is taken. Williams' 
Fork is reached from Denver by rail to 
Boulder, thence to Hot Springs and the 
Park by stage. At Hot Springs there 
is a hotel, and from this excursions may 
be made to the Fork on horseb'Bcli;. 

The Blue River may be reached in 
this way also, though the best way would 
be to go to Colorado Springs and thence 
up the Ute Pass on horseback, or, still 
better, with a wagon and camping outfit. 
It has been fished but little, and yields 
great quantities of large fish. It is one 
of the best tia:)ut streams in the State, 
and will amply repay a visit. The scen- 
ery, too, cannot but afford hig!. pleasure 
to every admirer of Kature. The trip up 
the Ute Pass and through the various 
intervening small parks is worth all the 
trouble even were there no other object 



in view at the end of the journey. Take 
the cars of the Denver & Rio Grande 
Railroad and go to the southern end of 
the State. Stop at Garland and fish in 
any of the mountain tributaries of the 
Rio Grande. The Trancharo or Trin- 
charas, as it is indifferently called, is six 
miles from Garland. It is full of fine 
fish. At Alamosa the streams are 
equally good. The trip over the Denver 
& Rio Grande Railroad, passing, as it 
does, over the Sangre de Christo Range, 
and through the Yeta Pass at an altitude 
of nine thousand three hundred and nine- 
ty-three feet above the level of the sea, 
affords a vieAV of some of the grandest 
scenery in the world. The JVlule Shoe 
of the railroad causes the celebrated 
Horse Shoe of the Pennsylvania to 
dwindle into insignificance. Only such 
streams are mentioned here as have been 
reported as affording good sport, and 
can be relied on. There are, however, 
many others. Nearly ail the mountain 
streams contain trout. A word should 
be said about the pleasures of camping 
out in this section. There is no place 
where it yields more pleasure and profit. 
The glorious, exhilarating air, the bright 
sunshine, and the almost cloudless sky, 
combine to make camping enjoyable and 
health-giving to an unusual extent. 

TKOUT FISHING IN MIDDLE PARK — GAME, 
BEAR, DEER, ELK, kc. 

A correspondent of one of our weekly 
cotemporaries thus describes the trout 
fishing in Middle Park: In July, 1863, a 
company of soldiers were stationed on the 
bank of Grand River at Hot Sulphur 
Springs in the middle of the park, and 
they were catching trout from that stream 
every day literally by the gunny -bag full. 
They are remembered now as the fattest, 
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they said it was the result of a strictly 
speckled trout diet. At that time fish of 
three to five pounds weight were com- 
mon, and specimens weighing from six to 
seven pounds were occasionally taken. 
The fishing was all done with hook and 
line, but science, or skill, or fancy tackle 
were unknown. 

Two years later I went again, and 
found that a little creek on the way, at 
which we threw off our saddles for a 
noon rest, was literally alive with spec- 
kled beauties. In Grand River the 
sport was equally good and the fish much 
larger. I caught one that measured 
twenty-two and a half inches. Since then 
I have missed but one Summer without 
making one or more excursions to that 
locality. In 1868 I did my best fishing. 
There were a good many people at the 
Springs, numbering clcfse on to one hun- 
dred and fifty, all living in tents or the 
open air. Whilst many were fishing, 
but few were fishermen, so that those 
who could catch trout were at liberty to 
take all they pleased, since none would 
be wasted. I found a new (to me) 
stream about four miles away, Williams 
' River, in which were numerous rapids 
interspersed with deep pools, and about 
two miles above its mouth a fall of twelve 
or fourteen feet. It had a beautiful lit- 
tle valley with luxuriant vegetation, 
abundant wild fruit and wild groves of 
lofty, wide spreading cottonwoods. For 
five days in succession I visited this love- 
ly stream, fished from three to four hours, 
and brought back all that my horse could 
well carry. The smallest catch of the 
five days was seventy-two pounds. On 
one of the days I certainly brought in 
ninety pounds, all caught from one pool 
and standing in one place. Other sea- 
sons I have done quite as well in other 
streams. In 1814 a wagon road was 



opened and the next year another. The 
latter, from Georgetown, is a magnifi- 
cent road, and a splendid drive. In the 
Summer there is a tri-weekly line of 
stages, and the time from the end of the 
railroad is ten hours, between breakfast 
and supper. In Winter this road is 
buried uftder ten or twenty feet of snow, 
which does not permit wheel travel until 
the latter part of June, and then only 
between high crystal walls. But that is 
early enough. The sport begins in July, 
and grows better until late in the Fall. 
A village has grown up at the Springs. 
Settlers are scattered along all the larger 
streams, and the charm of camp life in 
the wilderness is passing away. How- 
ever, it is not yet difficult to get beyond 
the settlements, away up the streams in 
the pine woods. About the Springs fish- 
ing is overdone. From twenty-five to 
fifty hotel guests can be seen each day 
sauntering up and down the river for two 
or three miles, catching a few trout each, 
and in the aggregate quite a number. 
But fair sport can be enjoyed by mount- 
ing a horse and riding from five to six 
miles away. Four miles down stream 
comes in Williams River from the south ; 
twelve miles down, Troublesome River 
from the north. Seven miles up, Frazer 
River enters from the south ; five miles 
further, Willow Creek from the north; 
four miles further, the South Fork from 
the southeast; six miles above that, the 
North Fork from the northeast, and five 
miles above that, or twenty-five miles 
from the Springs, is Grand Lake — the 
nicest, the easiest, and the laziest place 
to take trout in that whole region. It 
is a real Alpine sheet of water, close up 
against the foot of lofty snow-crowned 
peaks, walled in by morainal deposits. 
Two and a half or three miles long, and 
half that in width, its depth is unknown. 



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The river flows out to the west, and 
there is a narrow space of level ground 
and open pine woods on that side. Else- 
whore the mountains rise abruptly from 
the water's edge. In this level space 
there are three or four rude cabins, and 
one man has lived a kind of hermit life 
here for ten or twelve years. Iji Sum- 
mer he follows fishing, generally having 
a partner or two and plenty of company. 
Some seasons there are other regular 
lishermen, but the great majority are 
transient visitors. To carry on the busi- 
ness of fishing for market requires three 
or four men operating together. The 
fish are caught from boats or rafts and 
kept alive in ponds until three or four 
hundred weight are collected, when they 
are hastily dressed, packed with green 
grass in baskets or open boxes, and car- 
ried on donkeys to market at George- 
town, Central City, and other mining 
camps, with an occasional cargo to Den- 
ver. One or two men accompany the 
animals, sell the fish, and return with 
loads of flour and other supplies. Three 
or four men will, from the middle of July 
to the middle of September, catch from 
three thousand to four thousand pounds 
of trout. The trout of the lake are most- 
ly small, weighing from four to eight 
ounces when dressed. The fishing ground 
is from tlu'ee hundrod feet to five hun- 
dred feet off shore, where the water is 
from twenty to thirty feet deep. It is on 
the brink of a ledge, beyond which the 
bottom drops off to an uidvuown depth. 
At times the schools of fish visit other 
places. Several streams enter from the 
mountain side, and late in the season 
there are certain hours of certain days 
when the water about these rivulets are 
fairly alive with fish. There are also 
spots in which at certain times quite large 
trout can be taken, geuorally after dark, 



by still-fishing with bait. Nearly all the 
fish taken are with bait, grasshoppers 
being the best, and from ten to twenty 
feet beneath the surface. Those who 
fish for a business will handle three or 
four lines, each with a short rod, and 
take them in as fast as possible. 

Half a mile above the lake, on the 
main stream, there is a waterfall and the 
head of trout navigation. The stream 
comes down through an impassable can- 
yon, which, looked down into from above, 
is a chain of lakelets and cascades. The 
roar of the lower fall can be heard from 
the west side of the lake ; but what is very 
strange, its location or direction cannot 
be determined from the sound. One day 
it may seem to be steadily at one point 
of the shore, the next day at another; or 
it may change with the hours or minutes. 
Sudden gusts of wind are common and 
very dangerous. From a dead calm the 
surface of the water is often churned into 
foam in a few moments, the gale seeming 
to blow from all quarters as well as 
straight downward. Persons drowned 
in the deep jjortion of the lake sink to 
rise no more. 

There is generally the very best of fish- 
ing in the outlet from the lake. The 
river for a considerable distance is wide 
and shallow, with an uneven bed of stones, 
sprinkled here and there with immense 
boulders that rise above the water. Then 
it changes to a succession of rapids, with 
deep, glassy pools between. The neigh- 
boring country is alternate open meadow 
glades and billowy hills covered with 
pines. Immediately north of Grand 
Lake is an extensive area of forest, so 
dense and choked with fallen trees and 
brush as to be almost iuipeuetrable. In 
it are several other lakes, visible from 
the high mountains above, which are 
doubtless equally well stocked with fish. 



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Coming down tlirougli this forest is the 
north fork of the river, and really its 
main branch. Judging from appear- 
ances, it should afford excellent sport fur 
twenty miles further up. 
^ All this wooded country abounds with 
bear and elk, and on the mountain slopes 
above the lake, to the eastward, near 
the timber line, arc great numbers of 
mountain sheep and mule deer. The 
streams have plenty of beaver, mink, and 
marten along them everywhere. 

In the Summer of 1871, an intimate 
friend and myself went to Grand River 
about the middle of July, and made 
headquarters at Hot Sulphur Springs. 
We fished up the river, down the river, 
and in all the neighboring streams. 
Mounting our horses in the morning, we 
would ride to the locality determined 
upon, picket them in the rich grass, one 
of us go down and the other up the 
stream, putting in three or four hours, 
and always returning with well filled 
baskets. Over but very little water did 
we fish a second time. The last week of 
our intended stay, we decided upon some- 
thing more of an adventure. We 
heard of a newly-discovered lake away 
off in the southwestern rim of the park, 
called Black Lake, but could not obtain 
any definite directions how to find it, 
other than from the description of cross- 
ing the creek that ran from it to Blue 
River, so we packed our blankets, coffee- • 
pot, frying pan, and some provisions on 
an e.xtra pony, and set out to find the 
new paradise. Three young men, or large 
boys — two of them from Denver and one 
from Tennessee — who were vagal)ondiz- 
ing in the mountains for a couple of 
months' cavalcade; also a young man 
who belonged at the Springs, so that we 
numbered six horsemen, and had two 
extra animals for the impedimenta. We 



struck across the hills southwest, crossed 
Williams River eight or ten miles above 
its mouth, and turned up its wide valley 
between the enclosing mountain spurs. 
It is a delightful region of rolling grassy 
hills, interspersed with groves and belts 
of timber. Hundreds of antelopes were 
grazing in groups of from five to fifty, 
but they were wary and wild. Although 
the boys did considerable firing at long 
range, they got no meat, and the march 
we had laid out for the day did not ad- 
mit of wasting time for a systematic hunt. 
At the head of the valley we turned to 
the right and passed over a high moun- 
tain ridge. At length we reached the 
summit, and traversed an open forest of 
living timber with most beautiful inter- 
vals of luxuriant meadows, with grass 
and towering plants higher than our 
horses' backs, and springs of delicious, 
sparkling, icy water. It was a most 
lovely region, and rich repayment for all 
our struggles and hardships. For the 
descent we found and old trail plain and 
good, and just as twilight was falling we 
reached Blue River, and camped on the 
green sward in a grove of quaking aspens. 
We had no tent, and after a steaming 
supper, to which we did ample justice, 
spread our blankets in the open air, as is 
the universal custom with mountaineers. 
Blue River is a rapid, boisterous 
stream that beads in the main range 
near Mount Lincoln, and flows north 
about seventy miles to its junction with 
the Grand in the western edge of Middle 
Park. From source to mouth, it falls 
about seven thousand feet. Trout abound 
in all its tributaries, but none in the main 
stream. The next morning we concluded 
from the "lay of the country" that we 
had struck the river too high up, so we 
turned down its western shore along a 
new wagon road. Five or six miles 



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down the valley we crossed a creek 
which we recognized as the outlet of the 
lake, and found it to be the branch known 
as the Roaring Fork of the Blue. Turn- 
ing up its course the climbing was very 
steep and rough. The stream plunges 
down the descent in an almost unbroken 
sheet of foam, among great black rocks 
overhung with fringes of black alder and 
birch. We were told that the lake was 
two miles from the river, but we conclud- 
ed that the distance was five or stx miles. 
Before us was a great amphitheatre in 
the wildest portion of that ruggedest of 
ranges — the Blue River spur. We were 
nearly up to the snow level, and the stu- 
pendous, black faces of the cliffs, the 
spires, and needles and pinnacles of the 
splintered summits seemed almost within 
reach. At length the way became so 
steep and difficult that horses could go 
uo further; the canyon closed in; but a 
couple of footmen, clambering up over 
the rocks, soon shouted back " Eureka!" 
So we camped in a grove of aspens, £.nd 
turned our animals loose in the most 
beautiful of little meadows of timothy, 
clover, and wild oats up to their mid- 
sides. After dinner we went up to the 
lake, and soon caught all the fish we could 
use. But in exploring the solitude we 
found that a Crusoe had already fixed 
his habitation under the lee of a mon- 
strous rock on the lake shore. There 
was his rude hut, provisions, a few tools, 
skins of animals and feathers of birds. 
Moored at the water's edge was a raft 
to fish from, with its complement of rods 
and lines, a floating fish-pond, and, 
hauled up on the rocks, a Bond patent 
boat. The owner of all this primitive 
•wealth was invisible, but it was plain 
that his business was to fish for profit. 
Exploring further we discovered tliat a 
trail led across the point of hills from the 



lake to the river, striking the latter far 
above the mouth of the creek, and then 
we understood the two miles distance. 
Over that trail the Bond boat had been 
packed on a horse or mule. From the 
outlet of the lake the stream falls thirty 
feet in each hundred for five hundred or 
six hundred feet, roaring and foaming 
among immense rocks and rafts of drift- 
wood. There are falls of ten or twelve 
feet in places, though the water is so di- 
vided and broken up into different streams 
and varying leaps that the trout ascend 
and descend without trouble. In this 
water we found the best sport and the 
finest fish, some of them weighing up to 
a couple of pounds each, and presenting 
the most brilliant carmine tints, bright 
as the rosiest sunset clouds. 

Going up to the lake we could hear 
beyond it the roar of a waterfall, which 
I determined to see. So off I trudged, 
and a weary tramp it was; but I was 
paid a hundred fold. The stream enters 
the lake from a dense, moss-draped forest 
of pine, spruce, and fir trees more than 
two hundred feet high. Five hundred 
feet from the lake it plunges down from 
a great cliff of granite, descending by a 
series of leaps of from fifty feet to two 
or three hundred feet each. I climbed 
up until I became tired, and as far as 1 
could see the torrent was coming thus 
down the mountain side. Between the 
foot of the falls and the lake I landed a 
few very fine trout, and feasted on delici- 
ous currants that covered the banks. 
Then took my stand at the inlet and 
caught trout as fast as I could throw 
the fly, until my basket was filled and I 
had more than I could comfortably carry 
to camp. Starting around the lake I 
met ray friend and the proprietor of the 
fishery gliding toward its head. The 
latter was paddling a neat, trim raft, and 



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tlie former was castiujjj right and left and 
hauling in trout at a bewildering rate. 
Mr. Crusoe had wandered back to his 
camp that day, and my friend had sub- 
sidized him and enjoyed some famous 
sport without the necessity of making a 
single exertion except to land his fish in 
a box at his feet; 

Black Lake is a genuine Aljnne lakelet 
of eight hundred to one thousand acres, 
formed by a dam of mountain debris 
across the drainage trpugh, doubtless 
the terminal moraine of the last resistless 
ice river that forced its way down this 
groove in the solid granite. Its great 
depth and the mountain shadows give it 
a- black appearance. The water is clear 
as crystal and cold as newly-melted snow, 
coming as it does so short a distance 
from banks and fields of that substance 
that never disappears. On the west the 
water is fringed by green timber; on the 
south and east the old forest has been 
killed by fire and a new one is taking its 
place; on the north is a verdant meadow. 
A hunter has told me that about the 
falls in Winter, when the mist and frost 
have loaded the trees and every twig and 
leaf with ice crystals, the scene, lighted 
up by the sun, is of marvelous beauty 
and indescribable grandeur. Tiie alti- 
tude is about ten thousand feet or two 
miles above the sea. 

YAMl'AIl RIVER. 

At the head of Yampah River, about 
thirty miles from the Hot Sulphur 
Springs, at the head of the river where 
the stream is about seventy-five feet 
wide and two feet deep in the current, 
there arc many deep pools, eddies, &c., 
which make it a choice fishing locality 
in the latter part of the season. The 
country near the river is an open park 
about four miles wide and twelve or fifteen 



long; but eastward from the park, from 
two to three miles, are very rugged moun- 
tains — the west slope of the Gore Range. 
The first elevations are covered with 
scrub oak timber and a dense growth 
of raspberry, sarvis berry, cherry, red 
hawthorn, and other brush, most fruit- 
bearing. The crop is generally immense- 
Here abundant signs of bear can be seen 
— their wallows and shady resting places; 
their feeding grounds and fresh tracks, 
evidences that Bruin makes his home 
here. Also great numbers of deer, which 
seem to occupy the country much as cat- 
tle do a populous pasture. Further 
back, the mountains rise higher ; the 
slopes and summits are covered with 
pine, spruce, and fir timber; the intervals 
occupied by aspen groves and little open 
parks, each with its rivulet of clear, cold 
water. Here elk are as plentiful as the 
deer on the outer hills, but although im- 
mediately contiguous, they did not seem 
to range or graze over the same ground. 
Pintail grouse collect in the park by 
hundreds — some say by thousands. 
From daylight until after sunrise in the 
morning, their chattering and cooing is 
as striking as that of prairie chickens in 
the grain-fields of the Mississippi Valley. 
There are also some sage hens, and, well 
up on the mountains, a few blue grouse. 
In the townshij) are three salt springs, 
which are great resorts for deer and elk. 
Deeply worn trails lead to them from all 
directions, and the ground in the vicinity 
is tramped like cattle yards. Much of 
the soil is rich, and productive in iiuti'i- 
tious grasses and edible roots. Of thi; 
latter, the yampa, sage, and artichoke 
are the most important, both in the 
economy of the Indian and subsistence of 
bear and other wild animals. 

In the eastern edge of Fgeria Park, 
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Park hunters, killed in 1878, twenty- 
three deer in two and a halfdajs. On 
the western slope of the Gore Range, 
another hunter attached to a camp shoot- 
ing deer for market, stated that he 
thought at least five hundred deer had 
crossed the road during three days; 
another one placed the number much 
higher. 

GAME RESORT.-^. 

It was said at one time that deer were 
growing scarce in Colorado. But the 
numbers daily brought into the various 
towns by sportsmen and market hunters 
certainly looks like a flat contradic- 
tion of that assertion. It is the general 
testimony of hunters tliat deer are just 
as abundant as ever they had been, 
though, pcrhajDS, it was necessary to pen- 
etrate a little further into the mountains 
to secure them. One can scarcely go 
amiss anywhere in the mountain region 
of this State. He may select his own 
ground in the northern, middle, or south- 
ern part, and he will be rewarded for his 
pains. If he chooses he may leave the 
haunts of men far beuind him, and rough 
it in the Snowy Range. He may camp 
in any of the great* parks, and so live 
more easily than in the former case. He 
may, if he choose, stop at some ranehe, 
or even live at a good hotel, and yet 
bring home an abundance of game. 

Those who are willing to rough it, 
need little direction. They may make 
Denver, Colorado Springs, or Alamosa 
their starting point, and Irom any of these 
places, going into the mountains, be sure 
of success. There arc some men, how- 
ever, who are not able to endure the 
fatigue of long joureys on horse or mule, 



who yet enjoy a hunt under less fatiguing 
circumstances. For the sake of these 
one place should be mentioned where 
they may stay comfortably in a good 
hotel, and yet be able to carry to their 
Eastern homes some antlers or evidences 
of their skill with the rifle. 

Manitou is seventy-five miles south of 
Denver, from whence it is reached by the 
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and six 
miles of staging from Colorado Springs, 
where you leave the railroad. It may 
also be reached from the south by the 
same railroad, via Pueblo. At Manitou, 
two good hotels remain open all the year 
round, at either of which most comfort- 
able accommodations may be had. With- 
in easy walking distance deer may be shot 
any day. In 1818, a gentleman, who 
was something of an invalid, shot two, 
within three miles of the Manitou House, 
at which he stopped. On another occa- 
sion four deer were killed in one day 
within four m'les of the village. And 
many other like cases might be enumer- 
ated. Those who love Nature in her wild 
beauty would find enjoyment here. Wil- 
liam's and Ruxtou's canyons, though very 
unlike each other, have great charms in 
their picturesque scenery of stream leap- 
ing from rock to rock, massive boulders, 
and high, rocky walls, that the giants 
built to towering heights. Caves, too, 
offer their peculiar attractions to the ad- 
venturous. Pike's Peak looks down in 
silent majesty from his solemn lieight 
upon the little village that nestles in his 
very sliadow at his feet, M'hile to the east 
the boundless sea of plains stretch away 
in limitless distance, always varying in 
shade and color with every hour of the 
day, with every cloud or ray of sunshine. 



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C(EUR D'ALENE. 

If the reader will turn to the mop of 
Idaho Territory and cast his eye upon 
its western boundary he will see thgt 
about midway it is crossed by the Snake 
(or Shoshone) Rivev. Following this 
boundary due northfor about a hundred 
miles he will see a splotch of irregular 
form, evidently designed to represent a 
body of water, as two or three rivers 
are seen to empty into it. This repre- 
sents Coeur D'Alene Lake, a magnificent 
sheet of water some thirty miles in 
length. The width is so affected by the 
jutting promontories that it varies from 
ten to two miles, and no more definite 
measure can be given. 

The primeval forest comes to the 
water's edge, and the shadows of the tall 
pines are reflected in its pellucid waters ; 
for these are never clouded, the springs 
and streams which feed it are never 
muddy, and the great Spokan River, 
which springs from it fnll-grown — one 
hundred and sixty yards in width at the 
season of the lowest water, with a swift 
current — has never a shadow cast upon 
its waters by contamination with any 
vulgar soil. In plain English, the waters 
of both lake and river are so transparent 
tliat the bottom can be seen _^iiy where 
and at any time to a depth of twenty 
feet. 

On a dark night with one of Boudren's 
hunting and fishing lamps, when it is 
perfectly quite, the bottom can be seen 
at over thirty feet. As a necessary con- 
sequence of the purity of its waters, it is 
the home of the trout. These are of 
many varieties, from the j)ure (Pacific 
coast) Salmo fontinalis to the great 
salmon trout six feet in length. Tlie 
heaviest fish caught here with hook and 
line weighed exactly nine pounds, but 
many have since been seen which must 



have been far heavier. Trout three or 
four feet, and occasionally six or more 
feet, are not unfrequently seen ; but they 
are wary fellows. None have been 
caught. Numberless lines have been 
carried away, and times without number 
sockdolagers have been hooked, but so 
far none of these whales have been cap- 
tured. Trout of one, two, or three pounds 
are the rule, and their name is legion. 
An old trout fisherman who visited this 
lake some years ago, and havhig no boat, 
made a raft of logs on which he pushed 
out into the lake near its mouth, said it 
was "the best and most magnificent 
trout fishing in the world." The catch 
is often fabulous. 

In July, August, and September the 
fishing is poor for Cceur D'Alene. One 
can catch a dozen of an evening, often 
three or four. The reason is plain. The 
trout seek the mouths of the ice-cold 
mountain streams and do not return to 
this part af the lake (its mouth) until 
the cold weather and high water. At 
the mouths of the streams above alluded 
to they are as numerous as the sands on 
the sea-shore, and one might think them 
crazy they are so anxious to be hooked. 
A short time since some men fishing near 
the mouth of one of these streams, caught 
twenty trout with a coarse line and 
large hook in half an hour. Not one of 
them weighed less than two pounds. 
This is ordinary fishing in this lake. 

The mountains around the lake teem 
deer, bear, panther and all the varieties 
of smaller game. The cry of the loon on 
the lake is alternated with that of the 
panther in the forest. Every night after 
" taps " a din arises that makes one 
think that pandemonium has broken 
loose. The wolves, timber and coyote, 
when all has become quiet, steal in to 
see what they can pick up; and the dogs 



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of the camp, jealous of their cousins, 
sound the alarm and are upon tliem. 
A grand saturnalia ensues, and for 
about half an hour the night is rendered 
hideous 

On a calm Summer morning the lake 
presents one of the finest views that can 
well be imagined. Everything seems so 
peaceful and calm that one feels he could 
lay himself down on the sandy shore and 
rest forever. As the sun comes over 
the eastern hills and glitters on the 
surface of the placid waters, scarcely 
rippled by the gentle morning breeze 
which is hardly felt, the solemn silence, 
broken only by the far-off lonely cry of 
the loon, makes itself felt, and the mind 
of the poor mortal goes up in prayer of 
adoration and thanksgiving to the Most 
High. It is a beauty that can be felt, 
not expressed. The solemn, pine-clad 
mountains, the deep shadows in the lake, 
the perfect quiet, the impression of 
majesty and power, the awful stillness, 
the wreaths of mist on the lake, tinted 
with the beams of the morning sun, the 
tall pine on yonder point with gilded 
head gracefully bowed as the sunbeams 
kissed his brow. What wonder that 
those in Eastern clime bend in mute 
adoration as their Deity lifts his gorge- 
ous crest above the horizon. 

The country round about Lake Coeur 
D'Alene is chiefly mountainous, with here 
and there a small plateau or valley, gen- 
erally on the bank of some sequestered 
lake. 'J^iie MuUan Road (running from 
Fort Walla Walla to Fort Benton, and 
built by Captain MuHan, formerly of the 
array) comes up the Spoken River, and 
skirting the foot of the lake, passes over 
the mountains. Wolf Lodge, a small 
hay ranche on Wolf Lodge Creek, which 
empties into the lake, is about fifteen 
miies distant, and some fifteen miles 



further on is the Coeur D'Alene Mission 
on the river of the same name. Here 
the good Jesuit Fathers reside, and have 
managed to Christianize the Coeur 
D'Ah'sue Indians. 

About six miles from 'W'olf Lodge 
and about due north, is a lake some 
three or four miles long by half a mile 
wide, which is celebrated for the abun- 
dance of its fish and the amount of game 
on the mountains surrounding it. There 
is no outlet to the lake, nor are there 
streams of any great size, though 
several small ones, flowing into it. But 
it is always full. It is fed by springs, 
and the water is clear, pure, and always 
icy-cold. 

That there are underground passages 
and caves throughout this country is 
certain. Often, when riding, the drum- 
like sound of the horse's feet or deep 
rumble of the heavy wagons indicates 
the existence of vast hollows under 
ground. The Spokan River, which flows 
from the lake, over a hundred yards in 
width, has apparently no affluent above 
the great falls; yet, about fifteen miles 
below the lake, the volume of water is 
suddenly almost doubled. In Winter, 
above this place, the river freezes over; 
but below, between it and the falls, it 
never freezes. In Summer, when the 
lake becomes warm, the water of the 
river is always the same until it arrives 
at this place, when a very marked in- 
crease of coldness is at once perceptible. 
Undoubtedly some underground current 
joins the main body of the river at this 
place, having its exit among the rocks, 
which are scattered around in the wild- 
est profusion. 

The hunting around Coeur D'Alene 
Lake is super-excellant, and the fishing 
" the best in the world." In the numer- 
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the secluded portions of the great lake, 
the wild fowl build their uests and rear 
their young. 

BIRDS AND ANIMALS. 

Grizzly, black, brown, and cinnamon 
bears; California lion, panther, wild-cat, 
lynx, wolverine, gray, timber and prairie 
(coyote) wolves; red, black, silver-gray, 
and cross foxes; beaver, otter, pine and 
stone marten; mink, fisher, weasel, bad- 
ger, skunk, muskrat, elk, caribou, Yir. 
giuia, black-tailed, and mule deer; 
rabbits and hares; gray, red and ground 
squirrels; chipnuinks, gray and bald 
eagles ; osprey and many other varieties 
of hawks; hooting, long-eared and snowy 
owls; sage hen, pintail, pine, ruffed, and 
prairie grouse; capercailzie or cock of 
the mountain; wild geese and swans; 
loons, ducks of many kinds; English and 
other snipe; plover, curlew, sand-hill and 
swamp cranes; robins; blackbirds of 
several kinds; crows, yellowhammers, 
several varieties of woodpecker, bluebirds, 
magpie, snowbirds, bluejays, water- 
ouzel, hummingbirds of many kinds, 
and a great variety of other birds and 
animals are found there. 

FISH. 

Of fish there are a number of varieties 
of trout, salmon trout, suckers, and many 
kinds of shiners and other small fish. 
Salmon come up the Spokan River in 
abundance, but cannot get over the 
Great Falls. There are neither mos- 
quitoes nor black flies — those pests of 
the angler and hunter on the lake 
shores — though there is a fair allowance 
of other insect=!, the common house-fly 
being particularly abundant, 

NATURE OF THE COUNTRY. 

The country around is a perfect wilder- 
ness, and the few ranches, which here 



and there dot the country, are simply a 
log hut and patch of garden. The Great 
Spokan Prairie, which extends from 
Pend'oerille Lake to the Columbia 
River, being rather more than a hundred 
miles in length, with a varying breadth 
of from six to ten, contains some good 
ranches where the cereals grow thriftily. 

ROUTES. 

There are several routes to this beauti- 
ful country. One is by Helena and 
Missouri Mountains, by the Mullan road, 
over the mountains. This route is al- 
ways closed by heavy snow falls during 
the Winter. During the Spring, Sum- 
mer, and Fall this route is practicable 
for equestrains, but not for wagons, the 
bridges built by Captain Mullan having 
been swept away by the spring floods. 
The scenery along the route is said to be 
very grand and beautiful. One of the 
streams on the route (Hose Creek) 
crosses the road sixty-five times in less 
than as many miles. It is readily forded, 
except during the spring floods. The 
country can also be entered by the Mul- 
lan Road from Walla Walla. (The 
Mullan Road runs from Fort Walla 
Walla on the Columbia to Fort Benton 
on the Missouri River). There is also 
another road from Walla Walla via 
Waitesburg, Dayton, Colfax, Pine Grove, 
and Spokan Falls. This is the most 
practicable route, and the only one over 
which runs a public conveyance. A 
stage runs daily from Walla Walla to 
Colfax, and a "buck board" from Colfax 
to Spokan Falls twice a week. At Spokan 
Falls a team can be hired for the re- 
maining twenty-seven miles. There are 
hotels at Waitesburg, Dayton, Colfax, 
and Spokan Falls, but most of the 
houses on the way will accommodate 
travelers. There is another road from 



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AYalla Walla by the Texas Ferry across 
Snake River. Another route is from 
Lewiston, Idaho, through Paradise Val- 
ley, Moscur, Palouse City, Pine Creek, 
Pine Grove, and Spokan Falls. Yon can 
also go from Lewiston via Colfax. In 
the Summer and Fall all these roads are 
good, but during the Winter and Spring 
the traveling is bad. In the Spring it 
is almost impassable for wagons a part 
of the way on account of the deepness of 
the roads. Hunting in this section, is 
very laborious, notwithstanding the abun- 
dance of game, owing to the excessive 
roughness of the country; but the Indian 
seems to be tireless, and almost never 
returns without meat. In the Winter, 
■when the snow is deep on the ground 
and the game is driven from the moun- 
tains to the rocky promontories which 
jut out on the prairie, the Indians have 
grand hunts. A whole village — men, 
women and chidlren — will go out, and, 
making a surround of a mile or two in 
diameter, will close in gradually toward 
some point agreed upon. The amount 
of game thus impounded is often im- 
mense. Of course, the greater part 
escapes — the more dangerous — with the 
free consent of Brother Lo; for they are 
after meat, not fur; but it is not infre- 
quent, at these great surrounds or bat- 
tues, for one or two hundred deer to be 
killed. As the circle closes in the fright- 
ened animals huddle together, or, im- 
peded by snow, dash frantically from side 
to side only to meet their foes wher. vcr 
they turn. When the circle is sufficiently 
contracted, the Indians run in on snow- 
shoes and the slaughter commences. 
The deer are killed with arrows, lances, 
clubs, and even knives. In these sur- 
rounds fire-arms are used sparingly, for 
ammunition is scarce and hard to get, 
and, moreover, it is dangerous. As a 



general thing, only the chiefs or head 
hunters indulge in this luxury, and this 
only with the greatest care and circum- 
spection. 

IX THE SILVER STATE. 

Wadsworth is situated on the Central 
Pacitic Railroad, Washoe county, Ne- 
vada, on the Truckee River, distance to 
Pyramid Lake eighteen miles, the reser- 
vation for the Pah Ute Indians. The 
lake is an extensive and beautiful sheet 
of water, slightly salt, and abounds with 
innumerable water fowl. Gulls and peli- 
cans breed here on some of the rocky 
islands, and many eggs of the gull's are 
gathered during the breeding season. 

Commencing about October 20th and 
until ^larch the trout leave Pyramid 
Lake, and Mud or Winti^mucca lakes, 
and ascend the Trnckee River to spawn. 
During this season a great quantity are 
taken, in fact it is the chief source of sub- 
sistance to the Indians. They are taken 
entirely with hook and line, the law 
prohibiting the use of seines or other 
fixed machines, and all dams are fur- 
nished with fish ladders to enable the 
trout to reach Lake Tahoe, or any of the 
tributaries of the Truckee. They take 
minnow or grub worms readily, but the 
favorite and most successful bait is fish 
spawn, tied up in mosquito bar, cut in 
squares of about two inches and firmly 
tied with thread. They resemble a large 
sized strawberry, and make the most 
successful bait known. The favorite 
manner with the Indians is the spear, 
with which they are very skillful, and 
the spear itself is a novelty and entirely 
difiTerent from anything ever seen or 
heard of. It consists of a very light and 
flexible handle about fifteen feet long, at 
the end of which are two prongs of wire, 
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stout line two very sharp points about 
half an inch long, which slip off the ends 
of the wire when the fish is struck, and 
have a tendency from the peculiar form- 
ation of the points, to cross themselves 
in the fish, making it next to impossible 
to pull out, as it only requires a very 
gentle shove to strike deep enough to 
make it secure. No fish, however large, 
can get off, unless the lines which are 
attached to the points and connected 
with the handle should break. The In- 
dians post themselves near the spawning 
beds and only kill the male trout, which 
always accompanies the female during 
this operation. The Indians take ad- 
vantage of this fact, and never disturbs 
the female, but as soon as the largest 
male is killed the next will take his 
place, and the Indian will wait patiently 
by those beds and pick off all the male 
fi.sh as fast as they appear. To anyone 
not experienced in the art, it would al- 
most be impossible to see the fish. The 
spearing is all done during the day time, 
and a novice might stand near the bed 
and not see a fish all day. They resem- 
ble a dark yellow cloud in the water, 
and the spear is allowed to float down 
the current until opposite the object, 
when a very gentle stroke makes the fish 
secure. 

Minnow and spawn are the principal 
baits used by those using the rod and 
line. The fish weigh from four to nine 
pounds, and are darker than the Eastern 
salmon trout. These* come mostly from 
Pyramid Lake, but another species call- 
ed the silver trout, come from AVinne- 
mucca Lake. Both kinds are taken 
freely during the season in the Truckee 
River; one hundred pounds per day to 
the rod being of frequent occurrence. No 
other fish are known to inhabit these 
waters, except the black mullet, or coy- 



ies, as the Indians call them. They come 
up the river later than the trout, but are 
not molested by the whites. The In- 
dians take and dry them for their Win- 
ter foi'd, which, with the pine nuts, form 
their principal source of subsistance. 

Humboldt Lake, the sink of the Hum- 
boldt, as it is usually called, is about 
forty miles from Wadsworth, in close 
proximity to the railroad, and abounds 
with all kinds of water fowl, ducks, geese, 
swans, curlew, snipe, &c. The shooting, 
however, is very difficult, owing to the 
absence of cover, as no flag or tule grows 
near the lake. Yery few fish are taken 
there, and of a small size. The water is 
strongly impregnated with alkali, and 
hardly fit to use. About eight miles 
west of Wadsworth, the country be- 
comes mountainous. Here a few moun- 
tain quail, grouse, and sage hens can be 
found, but not in plentiful quantities. A 
few black tail deer and occasionally 
mountain sheep are found, but more an 
exception than the rule. . Jack rabbits 
abound in every direction, and any quan- 
tity can be killed — twenty or twenty-five 
per day would be an average day's work 
for one gun. They are usually in good 
condition, and w^eigh from six to seven 
pounds when full grown. Still the shoot- 
ing iu the vicinity of Wadsworth is poor, 
but the fishing during the season is ex- 
cellent; in fact, the best found on the 
coast. Lake Tahoe, situated on the 
summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 
about eighty miles from Wadsworth, is a 
great resort for pleasure seekers during 
the heated term, and affords very good 
trout fishing, the fish being usually taken 
Avith the spoon or minnow. These fish 
will frequently weigh thirty-five or forty 
pounds, and do not resemble the Truckee 
trout. Independence Lake, about fifteen 
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small variety of trout which would aver- 
age about a pound, but are highly prized 
by epicures. They take grasshoppers or 
flies very readily, and afford fine sport. 
The lake is entirely surrounded by moun- 
tains covered with timber, but game is 
scarce; still, a few deer, mountain quail, 
and grouse are taken. Sierra Yalley, 
however, is the most frequented place 
for sportsmen iu this section, as there is 
such a variety of game. Stages run into 
the valley from Reno and Truckee.; dis- 
tance about thirty miles. Here may be 
found quail, grouse, ducks, deer, rabbits, 
and brook trout in all the small streams 
in abundance. Next to Hope Talley, 
this affords the best shooting to be found 
in the State. Hope Yalley is rather 
isolated, and too far from the railroad 
to be accessible to the sportsman from a 
distance, but parties fit out at Carson 
and Virginia City, and usually meet with 
good success. 



WHERE TO GO FOR WILD 
FOWL. 

It is somewhat a difficult matter to di- 
rect one as to where he can obtain good 
wild fowl shooting in this section. From 
Currituck to Montauk, all available 
points are leased, pre-empted, or held in 
possession by gentlemen sportsmen or 
market shooters, who claim exclusive 
privileges within the hmits of specified 
areas. To be sure of unqualified sport, 
one who is not a member of some club 
must possess the open sesame to the 
shooting box of some generous friend, or 
the good will of those who make duck 
shooting a livelihood. There ai'e num- 
erous places on the sounds of North Car- 
olina where one may shoot ad lihihivi, 
but there are no convenient means of ac- 
cess thereto, and no lodging accommoda- 
tions. So also on the Chesapeake, along 



the New Jersey coast, and on the shores 
of Long Island there are localities where 
one may shoot without his right to do so 
being disputed; nevertheless, it may be 
considered reasonably certain that no 
eligible stand is without its claimant, 
either by title, absolute possession, or the 
right which might gives. In this dilem- 
ma, it is a satisfaction to know that 
within the past year a new district has 
been opened up to the duck shooter, 
most easy of access by rail, where wild 
fowl congregate in untold numbers, 
scarcely disturbed by the few gunners 
that occasionally drop in among them. 
This district is comprised within the two 
counties of Virginia known as Accoraac 
and Northampton, dividing the waters 
of the Atlantic from those of Chesapeake 
Bay, the outer shores of which are 
flanked by innumerable islands and islets, 
among which the ducks gather unmo- 
lested. The southernmost point is known 
as the "Capes." Here are the famous 
islands of Chincoteague, Mockhorn, and 
Hog Island, besides scores of others 
scarcely known by name, oven to the few 
dwellers on the adjacent coast. These 
are reached from Lewes, Delaware, by a 
railroad running down nearly the entire 
length of the peninsula, and to Lewes 
one may go by all rail from New York, 
or by the Old Dominion Company's 
steamers, leaving New York at 4 v. m. 
and reaching Lewes next morning. 
Where one has a big bag of decoys and 
other impediments to carry the latter is 
preferable. Any information respecting 
this shooting ground, will doubtless be 
furnished cheerfully at the company's 
office in Greenwich street. Of other 
available places not wholly preoccupied, 
the eastern shore of Maryland is recom- 
mended, along St. Mary's county, in- 
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Egg Harbor, Barnegat Bay, the Great 
South Bay o'' Long Island, and the Con- 
necticut River near Saybrook. At all 
these places, good lodging accommoda- 
tions and experienced gunners can be 
found. 

LONG ISLAND. 



ITS HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND 
SUMMER RESORTS. 



The following description of the hunt- 
ing and fishing localities and pleasant 
places on Long Island was colated ex- 
pressly for Fur, Fin, and Feather. 
It includes about all the points worth 
visiting. 

The angler who takes his annual trip to the 
Adirondacks or Canadian waters, and expecis 
on leiurning home to be able to boast of hav- 
ing caught his fifty to eighty pounds of trout 
daily, and who cares for quantity rather tlian 
quality of sport, would scarcely be satisfied 
with that on the salt marshes, ponds, and 
streams of Long Island. But the well-trained 
disciple of Izasik Walton, he who can handle 
tlie most delicate tackle and cast a long line, 
not only without the remotest chance of a 
snarl, but so deltly tiiat the fly shall fall as 
light as a snowfiake, and who will be well sat- 
isfied with the capture of a half dozen fish 
when that is due entirely to his own skill; may 
find numerous spots either on the '• South 
Side " or along the north and east shores, 
where he can bring his scientific angling into 
play. 

This refers only to such fishing as is open 
to the public; there are numerous preserves 
and private ponds on the Island where a bas- 
ket full of well-bred and well-fed trout may 
be quickly landed, but access to tliese can only 
be iiad through the permission of the propri- 
etors. 

There are several noted sporting resorts on 
the Island ; Fire Island is known as ihe head- 
quarters for bluefish; in the Fall wild-fowl 
shooting is good there, as is also snipe shoot- 
ing. Say villu is one of those places where the 
visitor can vary the sport in troilling for blue- 



fish and Spanish mackerel ; casting the fly for 
trout or knocking over bay snipe, or stopping 
the flight of all kinds of wfld fowl. Patchogue 
is an excellent place for quail shooting, and we 
know of no place in close proximity to New 
York City, where Bob Whites in favorable 
se&sons are more abundant ; but for a week's 
gunning and fishing m a uidfe, unfrequented 
spot, commend us to Noyac and its beautiful 
bay, situated about four miies from the old 
town of Sag Harbor, on ihe Long Lsland Rail- 
road. 

For wild-duck shooting no place on the 
Island affords more game, and the best mode 
of proceeding is eitlier to station yourself at 
daylight on the beach of Jessup's Neck (where 
there is excellent bluefish fishing to be had in 
the season) and await your chance for shots at 
the flight of ducks, which regularly cross from 
Noyac Bay to Little Peconic Bay, or to take a 
boat and get in amongst the wild fowl as they 
float on tlie surface of the bay. 

Back of the cultivated strip of land on which 
Noyac stands, the woods extend about four 
miles townrds Bridgehampton, and in the 
marshy portion woodcock shooting is good in 
seai^on; partridges and rabbits are also plenti- 
ful, so that what with the enjoyable retirement 
of this spot and the facilities for sport, one 
may tliorcuglily take his pleasure for a week 
or two at a very small pecuniary outlay. 

Canoe Place is on the narrow isthmus be- 
tween the Shinnecockand Great Peconic Bays^ 
in the waters of the latter weakfisli, bluefish," 
striped bass, and kingfish are all in turn to 
be caught with a clam bait — a mollu.se for 
which the place is noted — rods and reels for 
those who fancy pole Hsliing, lines ami sinkers 
for those choosing drop lines. Tlie Island 
here is scarce half a mile wide, and a walk of 
that distance over the sandy dunes, held to- 
gether by bunches of wiry i each grass, reaches 
the beach of Shinnecock where the best of bay 
shooting can be had in August and September, 
and which becomes a paradise for duck and 
' goose shooters later in the Fall. At Good 
Ground, Gapt. Wm. Lane has one of the best 
resorts for duck shooting to be found in this 
section, and ho knows how to eniertain liis 
friends. Most excellent accommodations can 
also be had at the Bay Yiew House, kept by 
Mr. M. Williams. lie lias plenty of birds, 
good guides, complete outfit of decoys, batter- 



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ies, &c., and sets before tlie tired duck shooter 
a substantial bill of fnre, and provides a clean, 
comfortable bed on which he can rest from 
the fatigues of the day's sport. - 

West Hampton, also on the Sag: Harbor 
branch of tlie Long Island Railroad, is an ex- 
cellent spot for duck, quail and woodcock, 
while a good timS for a day or two may he had 
amongst the bay birds at Good Ground, where 
William N. Lane knows so well how to play 
the parts of host, guide and companion. At 
Soulhampton, a sequestered marine village 
near the ocean, one can get good fishing, and 
in the Fall excellent shooting; quail were said 
to be quite numerou-* last season. Bridge- 
hampton is also a good place to stop at, where 
j'ou can have either salt or fresh water angling, 
shoot woodcock, bay birds, quail and rabbits; 
good accommodalious can be had in the vil- 
lage. 

Greenport, the terminal stat'on of the rail- 
road, is reached in about four hours from 
Hunter's Point, and can boast of good hotel 
accommodations. A row boat will land ihe 
hunter on Shelter Island in a few minutos, 
and here, during the latt3r part of November 
and in December, a fair shot by using decoys 
can strike a barrel full of nearly all kinds and 
varieties of ducks, except ihe canvas back. On 
the low lands of this beautiful island, the 
ducks swarm in myriads at this season of the 
year, and from the day of legal shooting one 
can bag all the quail he can carry. Jamesport 
on this branch of the railroad is a good place 
to spend a few days in fishing, sailing and 
boating in the Summer; and in the Fall the 
shooting is good, quail and other small game 
being quite abundant. 

The most noted and richly slocked private 
ponds on the i.sland are Maitland's, Phillip's, 
and Stump Pon^ls, near Islip, and the Massa- 
piqua Pond at Oyster Bny. 

The entire surface of the Island is diversified j 
by ponds and extensive swamps, which send ! 
forth copious streams, clear and cold. Of tliese | 
Pecouic River is the largest, measuring about 
sixteen miles. Nearly all are well stocked 
with trout, but the most noted are Success 
Pond, Ronkonkoma, Coram, Great Pond, Fort 
Pond, Killis Pond, and the waters at Smith- 
town Carman's, Islip and Oyster Bay, the last 



being a pleasant place to visit for recreation, 
with either gun or dog, fishing tackle, troUing 
tackle, or no tackle at all. For the man of 
over-worked brain, who would seek rest near 
the metropolis, ^yster Bay is the place ; good 
irouting, good trolling, and good snipeing are 
to bo had here if anywhere ; the New Bridge 
Creek and Cedar Swamp will probably yield 
the best sport, after testing which, let the an- 
gler go on to Patchogue, and put up at Austin 
Roe's hotel, wheie he will find a landlord who 
owns rights in nearly all the ponds and creeks 
in the neighborliood. There he can fish as 
long as he pleases, free of charge and take 
home with him all the trout his luck or skill 
may bring to his creel. 

The Great South Bay of Long Island is a 
land-locked sheet of water, extending for some 
seventy miles and is from five to six miles in 
width, enclosed between the sandy beach of 
the sea shore and the meadows of the main- 
land. At any time between the middle of July 
and the middle of September, tliis bay is a 
favorite haunt of immense flocks of all descrip- 
tions of bay snipe, including tlie curlew, wiiltt, 
martin, dowitch, yellowleg, brant bird, and the 
gray, golden, and black-breasted plover, and 
later in the season abounds with teal, black 
duck, and broadbills. which will afibrd sufBcient 
amusement until the weather becomes too 
cold to handle a gun. Good accommodations 
can be had at any of the little villages that 
skirl the shore, such as Babylon, Islip, Mo- 
riches, &e., and Irom which the sniper can 
readily cross tlie bay to the beach for the day's 
sliooting, as these birds follow the beach shore 
of the b <y, and are very seldom shot on the 
mainl .nd sliore; the golden plover and yellow- 
legs are about the only exceptions to this rule, 
and they being fond of the feed in fresh water 
pond.", are often found in large flocks around 
the fresh meadows on the main. When strong 
easterly or westerly winds prevail the bay is 
very rough, and it is not always pleasant or 
even safe to cross in a sail boat, so that we 
would advise Fire Island, Bellport, or Fire 
Place as objective points; they are near tlie 
eastern terminus of the bay, so that from them 
both the meadows nnd the beach can be easily 
reached, and in the neigborhood of the last 
named there are also some fine trout streams. 



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HUNTING AND FISHING IN 

Until very recently comparatively but 
little had been written to place on record 
the noble same in the forests and the 
inag-iii(iceut fish to be found in the wa- 
ters of the Province of Ontario. There 
are certain localities abounding with the 
means of amusement for all those who 
rejoice in the manly and exhilarating plea- 
sures of rod and gnn. Of the larger va- 
rieties of game, in the great wilderness, in 
the north and west, moose, caribou, deer, 
bear, &c., are found in the greatest abun- 
dance, but are scarce in the southern por- 
tion of the Province. Swans, geese, 
(lacks, snipe, rnftVd grouse, woodcock, 
and golden plover, are very plentiful, 
and sportsmen can get good shooting; 
and in the innumerable rivers, lakes, and 
streams that are interspersed throughout 
rlie Province, the lordly salmon, speckled 
trout, maskalonge, bass, and pickerel of- 
fer abundant sport to the angler. 

In the southern portion of Ontario, 
large game is scarce, but in the great 
wilderness in the north and west, moose, 
caribou, deer, &c., can be found in the 
greatest abundance. Of late years this 
vast game region has been rendered 
comparatively easy of access. Guides 
and outfits are obtainable at almost any 
of (he larger towns or at the Hudson 
Bay Co.'s Posts. No better fishing 
grounds can be found anywhere than are 
afforded by the many lakes and rivers 
that dot the surface of the country. In 
that portion of the Province extending 
from Lake Ontario, north, between 
Georcian Bay and Ottawa Bay, and 
thence around Lake Superior, the angler 
will find innumerable lakes and rivers, 
aliundantly stocked with salmon, trout, 
bass, maskalonge, &c. Salmon fishing 
privileges are leased; but the other fish- 
ing, we believe, is open to all. 



THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO. 

Leaving the western section of Onta- 
rio, the Thousand Islands of the St. 
Lawrence afford splendid trolling for 
black bass and maskalonge, pike, and 
pickerel. The largest sized maskalonge 
are taken here, forty or fifry pounds not 
being unusuid, not with an ordinary 
bait, for they scorn the small bait that 
is so tempting a morsel to their kindred 
pike, but, says Weld, a good authority, 
" I have invariably taken thom with fish 
of a large size, such as no other angler 
would ever think of putting on his line." 
There is also good spearing here at 
night, and a week or two spent on any 
of these islands will amply repay the 
fisherman, besides giving him the invig- 
orating benefits of the river breeze. 
There is no difficulty in getting canoes 
or accommodations at any of the farm 
houses on the banks of the river, but 
hotels are few and far between. The 
whole channel of the Lake of the Thou- 
sand Islands is a famous spot for sport- 
ing ; myriads of wild fowl of every de- 
scription may be found there, and the 
facilities for coming upon them round 
some interposing point, by suddenly 
rounding one of the many islets, or 
again, by lying concealed on one of the 
islets and taking them on the wing in 
their flight past, make this amusement 
more varied than in most other shooting 
grounds. It is necessary to have a good 
I Newfoundland or retriever dog when 
shooting from the shore. The water va- 
ries in depth from five to eighty feet, flows 
at the rate of three miles an hour, and 
in addition to the piscatorial attractions 
of the spot, the scenery is unique. The 
fishing here has been so admirably <]e- 
{ scribed by Lanman, in his " Wander- 
I ings," and by Genio C. Scott, in his 
' " Fishing in American Waters," that it 



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■would be superfluous to dilate upon it 
here. The county of Foutenac still af- 
fords sport in duck-shooting, as well as 
partridge and snipe, though the birds 
are considerably thinntid out ; parties 
knowing the grounds, however, are sure 
of fair sport. The country in tlie rear 
beiug rocky and marshy, and thus un- 
suited for ftirming, still abounds with 
deer, and numbers of sportsmen from 
New York State annually visit it with 
good success. 

The Ottawa country lying back of 
the above district abounds in game of 
every description. Moose and deer are 
plentiful ; excellent duck and partridge 
shooting is to be had, together with a 
fair show of snipe and woodcock, though 
quail are not found east of Kingston, 
while the rivers and lakes teem with 
trout, maskalonge, pickerel, ard bass. 
On the Ontario side of the Ottawa river 
the streams have no trout, probably 
owing to the limestone formation through 
which they run, but those on the north 
or Quebec side, where the primary rocks 
are met with, abound with trout, the 
Madawaska being especially celebrated 
for the size and number of its fish. 
Good duck-shooting may be had all 
along the Ottawa in the long lagoons 
and marshes which fringe its banks; but 
perhaps the best places of all are on the 
Upper Ottawa near Cobden, and on the 
Lower Ottawa, the Lake of the Two 
Mountains, anrl Jones Island, the favor- 
ite resort of Montreal sportsmen. The 
moose roams in countless numbers 
throughout all the country to the north 
and northwest of the city of Ottawa, 
the D\unoine and Coulonge rivers being 
the most famous localities, and the 
Black and Gatineau river country also 
affording good sport, the latter being 
especially popular from its accessibility, 



and the variety of game to be met with 
there, if the sportsman desires to en- 
gage in the chase of the moose, lie c:iii 
obtain the services of trusty Indians at 
Ottawa, or at various points on \\\c 
river. At Sand Point, forty miles from 
Ottawa, lives a noted Indian hunter 
mimed White Duck. At Pembroke, 
near which place, the Bonneehere and 
Petewawa rivers afford good hunting 
grounds, the Ottawa House will be found 
in every sense of the word comfortable, 
and should the sportsman proceed as far 
as Des Joachims, the proprietor of the 
hotel there — there is only one worthy of 
the name, and that was formerly kept by 
Macdougall — will put him on the right 
track for sport. In the immediate vicin- 
ity of Ottawa quite a number of deer 
are killed annually, and on the Nation 
River, about thirty or forty miles below 
Ottawa, they are very abuudaut. All 
the small lakes and streams north of Ot- 
tawa abound in trout; and to sum it all 
up, a better region for the exercise of 
either gun or rod, where the sportsman 
is sure to meet with a rich reward in va- 
ried sport, will be hard to find than that 
of Ottawa. 

On Lake Superior and the Mackinaw 
Straits and the streams debouching into 
them, the very best of trout fishing can 
be enjoyed. The region is one of the 
healthiest in the world, and during July 
and August, the temperature is delight- 
ful. The waters around Grand Island, 
in Lake Superior, are well stocked with 
trout, whitefish, and other varieties of 
the finny tribe, and they are as abundant 
now as they were years ago, notwith- 
standing the extensive fishing done there 
annually — the supply seems equal to the 
demand. The best localities in the vici- 
nity lie off of what is known as Point 
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kind is scarce through this section, even 
wild fowl being seldom met with ; but 
the angler can revel in sport — the fish- 
ing is glorious. On the main land, moose 
are found in considerable number^, and 
bears are quite numerous; but deer seem 
to be quite scarce — only occasionally is 
one captured. Rabbits and almost every 
other northern variety of small animals 
are abundant, and grouse and other birds 
are plentiful. 

The excellent trout fishing to be had 
at Sault Ste. Marie has been described so 
often, that it is known almost to every 
angler. Brook trout, running in size 
from twelve ounces up to three pounds, 
are plentiful, while in the lake, the Mac- 
kinaw trout, of much weighter propor- 
tions, are abundant, and hard fighters. 
Use artificial fly or minnow for bait; the 
fish take these lures readily. The best 
points for fishing at the Sault are at the 
foot of the rapids, where the water is 
about twelve feet or more in depth. The 
fishing is generally done from canoes an- 
chored in the stream. Carp and Dead 
rivers, within less than half .an hour's 
drive from the village, afford capital 
trout fishing, and a brief visit there will 
give the fisherman an idea of the amount 
of torture the black flies and mosquitoes 
can inflict on poor humanity in an incre- 
dible short space of time. The water at 
Sault Ste. Marie is remarkably transpa- 
rent, and the bottom of the river can be 
distinctly seen at a depth of fifteen to 
twenty feet, apparently seeming not over 
four>*r five. Indian guides, canoes, &c., 
can ])e had in the village for a trip to 
Batcheewanaug Bay and its tributaries, 
Gaulais Bay, Montreal, Harmony, Ag- 
nawa rivers, afid other excellent trouting 
localities that lie along the north shore 
for a distance of over thirty odd miles. 
Sault Ste. Marie is reached by steamer 



from any of the points at which the lake 
steamers stop — Bufi'alo, Detriot, Cleve- 
land, Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, Col- 
lingwood, &c. The hotel accommoda- 
tions are ample and excellent 

The Nepigon region is more noted for 
its splendid fishing than its hunting. The 
Nepigon River is nearly fifty miles long 
from its mouth to the head of the lake, 
and is interspersed by several falls, where 
the very best of trout fishing can be en- 
joyed. In many places along the river 
are numerous broad expanses of water of 
nearly three miles in width, in which the 
whitefish and great lake trout abound in 
large numbers. Whitefish, trout, salmon 
trout, pike, pickerel, and other varieties 
of fish are found everywhere and in such 
numbers as to satisfy any angler that 
ever wet a line. In the way of game, a 
few caribou are found, but no deer of any 
species. In the early Fall, ruffed grouse 
are plenty, and numerous bears roam 
through the forests. Rabbits and other 
small game and fur-bearing animals are 
quite plentiful. August is the best time 
to visit this section, as then black flies 
and gnats have departed and the trout 
are gamey and fat. Take steamer at Du- 
luth, Detriot, or Toronto. The trip will 
occupy ten days' actual travel. Camp- 
ing ground is good everywhere through- 
out this section. At Red Rock, a Hud- 
son Bay Company'^ post, good accommo- 
dations are provided for sportsmen by 
Mr. Crawford, the agent, of whom fish- 
ing permits must be obtained before the 
angler will be allowed to fish in the Ne- 
pigon. Mr. Crawford also furnishes ev- 
erything needed for camping out, except 
shooting and fishing tackle, at very low 
rates, including all the necessary provi- 
sions, condensed milk, coffee, and soups, 
dessiccated meats, pork, ham, flour, pic- 
kJes, ale, porter, spirits for medicinal pur- 



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poses, canned fruits, segars and tobacco, 
boats, canoes, tents, blankets, woolen 
shirts, overcoats, cordnroy pants, boots, 
shoepacks, axes, cutlery, &c.; in fact, the 
sportsman need take nothing but gun, 
jiniinunition, and fishing tackle — a stout 
rod and brown and red hackles. Good 
and reliable Indian guides charge $1 a 
day for their services. These Indian can 
manage a canoe dexterously, and do ex- 
cellent camp duty. 

There are some fine fishing to be had 
in Brandt county. There are numerous 
lakes and ponds that are well stocked 
■with large sized black bass, among which 
Grand River and its tributaries. Smith's 
and Homer's creeks, are favointe points. 
There is a deep hole at Ivy's mill, on 
Homer's Creek, where the fish often as- 
semble in multitudes during the month 
of June. 

The Muskoka district is full of attrac- 
tions for sportsmen, embracing within its 
"boundaries numerous lakes, rivers, and 
streams, including what is called the 
Northern Lakes, north of Toronto, and 
known as lakes Simcoe, Muskoka, Ros- 
seau, and Cocochong. The waters are 
all well supplied with fish, and game in 
the gi-eatest abundance is found every- 
whei-e through the district. The North- 
ern Liikes are noted resorts for sports- 
men, affording trout fishing that cannot 
be excelled any where^ and the most mag- 
nificent black bass fishing to be had in the 
Province. The larger lakes are between 
thirty-five and forty miles in length, and 
some of the smaller ones do not cover 
half as many acres; but they are all clear 
and deep, and full of salmon trout, black 
bass, pickerel, perch, kc. The principal 
rivers are the Muskoka,with its two arms, 
both emptying into lakes, and broken l)y 
many falls; the Magnetewan, the Sev- 
ern, Moon, South, Kasheshebogamog, 



and Sharp's Creek. The south branch 
of the Muskoka is noted for its large 
and abundant trout. The Megnetewan 
River is famous for its speckled trout of 
six pounds in weight, its black bass of 
seven pounds, and its pickerel of twenty 
pounds; Moon River, twenty odd miles 
northwest of Gravenhurst, has a reputa- 
tion for giant-propoi'tioned maskalonge, 
and also contains its quota of speckled 
and salmon trout, pickerel, and black 
bass. Fine trout fishing can be had in 
Trading Lake, about eighteen miles from 
Bracebridge, and at the head of Lake 
Rosseau; Lake Joseph is noted for black 
bass; speckled and salmon trout, black 
bass, pickerel, &c., are taken in consid- 
erable number in Gull Lake, a short dis- 
tance from Gravenhurst. There are many 
other places where excellent sport can be 
had. Terry's, Pickerel, Perch, and Sil- 
ver lakes, all in close proximity to Mus- 
koka Lake; Sharpe's Creek, near Brace- 
bridge; the chain of lakes about fifteen 
miles from the same village, known as 
Fairy, Vernon, Fox, and Peninsula, with 
the Bay x)f Lakes (accessible by a mile 
"carry"), and the waters adjacent to 
and including the Magnetewan, are all 
well supplied with fish of various species. 
At nearly all these points deer are abun- 
dant and wild ducks plentiful. The 
Magnetewan River courses through the 
finest deer country in the Province. The 
forests all along the banks of the south 
branch of the Muskoka River are alive 
with deer, and a considerable number are 
found around Gull Lake, which is also a 
good place for ducks. Splendid deer 
hunting can be had at the head of Ros- 
seau Lake and around Trading Lake. 
Rulfed grouse are abundant along the 
Magnetewan, and also on the Severn, 
between Bracebridge and Gravenhurst. 
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HUNTING AND FISHING. GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS 



met with almost anywhere, except some 
few localities. The north branch of the 
Muskoka is troutless, and ruffed grouse 
and small game scarce along the south 
branch. 

The country is easily accessible, and 
the best hunting and tishing grounds can 
be " done " in four or five weeks. The 
objective point is Toronto. At Toronto 
take the Northern Railroad to Graven- 
hurst, or rail to Belle Ewart, and then 
steamer to Gravenhurst. A steamboat 
runs from Gravenhurst through lakes 
Muskoka, Rosseau, and Joseph, stopping 
at Bracebridge, seven miles up the Mus- 
koka River, and the starting point for 
the South Branch and Trading Lake, 
eighteen miles distant. Boats, guides, 
and dogs can had at Trading Lake. At 
Bracebridge, much valuable information 
respecting guides, conveyance, route, &c., 
can be obtained of the proprietor of the 
Queen's Hotel. Mr. Pratt keeps a good 
house at the head of Lake Rosseau, as 
also does Mr. Frazer at the head of Lake 
Joseph. They are both comfortable, and 
your wife can go with you without any 
inconvenience. 

Parties intending to camp out should 
take their own tent and " fixin's;" provi- 
sions and wagons can be procured at any 
large towns. Boats, guides, and dogs 
can be obtained at most of the places. 
Joseph Scott of Gravenhurst will furnish 
reliable guides and much needed informa- 
tion. Heavy woolen clothing is abso- 
lutely necessary. June is the best month 
for flsh ; September and October are the 
best mouths for game, the shooting then 
can be done without experiencing the 
exti'eme heat. 

Perth, in Lanark county, is good for 
deer and grouse, and splendid black bass 
fishing is to be had among the islands in 
the Lachine Rapids, and in the Fall 



and Spring excellent duck shooting can 
be had at the same point. A full de- 
scription of the Gull River Waters is 
given below, and other noted points are 
elsewhere mentioned. 



GULL RIVER WATERS. 

Balsam Lake lies at the terminus of 
the Toronto & Nepissing Railway, and 
is about ninety miles distant from To- 
ronto, Canada. It is at the head of a 
chain of waters — small lakes — of, ap- 
proximately, from four to fourteen miles 
in length, and short links of river that 
extend as far east as Rice Lake, includ- 
ing in the chain lakes Cameron, Stur- 
geon, Pigeon, Buckhorn, Stoney, and 
Clear. Out of Rice Lake these waters 
find their exit by way of the River 
Trent into the bay of Quinte, Lake On- 
tario. The fishing in these lakes con- 
sists of bass and maskalonge, and, of 
course, the dozen other varities found in 
like waters — perch, sunfish, catfish, 
suckers, &c. The country about Rice 
Lake to the south and north has been 
settled for many years. This lake is 
twenty-two miles in length, and from two 
to four miles wide. It is famous for its 
maskalonge and bass fishing, which even 
at this late date is probably better than 
in any of the lakes more remote from 
settlement. Its wild rice attracts many 
duck, and in October and the early part 
of November every available point jmd 
every island, at all favorably situated, is 
occupied by a sanguine sportsman. De- 
coying is the method of capture usually 
employed, but for ten years past the 
number of ducks visiting the lake has 
been rapidly diminishing; and although 
ten or fifteen years ago, with less de- 
structive weapons than are in vogue to- 
day, sportsmen were able easily to 
bag from thirty to one hundred ducks, 



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iu)w from tivi' to \c\\ is cousitUM-ed a 
irootl avonipfo luiinbor. 

Rice Lake is probably tlie most beau- 
tiful of the baelv lalves iu tiie Trovinee of 
Ontario. It is connected with the town 
of Cobourp:, on Lake Ontario, by the 
Ct)bourjr, Peterboro tS: Marmora Rail- 
way, fourteen miles in length. In the 
vicinity of most, of the lakes above named 
deer are still to be found, but only in 
some l(H'alitii>s is the hunting- really good, 
notably at Deer Bay, liuckhorn Lake, 
and north of Ralsam Lake. Of course 
there are tifty localities within the Prov- 
nce that aiford capital sport and deer 
u plenty; but this meagre description is 
ntended for what is commonly known 
as the Gull River Waters. 

Ruckhorn Lake has some very beau- 
tiful scenery, and at the Narrows, be- 
tween it anil Pigeon Lake, the country 
on either side, as you enter Buckhorn, 
has the appearance of a grand park, 
oak, beech, maple and balsam trees lend- 
ing their varied tints to the landscape. 
The lower part of Buckhorn Lake, after 
the ra[)ids are passed, is full of beautiful 
little rocky islets, covered with bright 
vegetation, very similar to those on the 
north shore of the Georgian Bay. There 
is very little settlement about Buckhorn; 
the land is poor close to the lake, and 
deer, partridge, and ducks abound during 
September and October, which months 
are the best for shooting. 

Stoney Lake is a body of water about 
nine miles long by three wide, and dot- 
ted over with innumerable islands of all 
sizes and shapes. Many of these are 
wooded, others are covered with grass 
and small shrubs, while a few produce a 
fair crop of bare rock ; these latter are 
sometimes selected as camp grounds for 
the weary traveler. 

Huckleberries iu their seasou are very 



plentiful, and are plucked as large as 
chcrri.'s. The black bass tishiiig iu the 
lake is lirst-class, especially at the mouths 
' of Jack's and Eel creeks. Trolling is 
; also good in all parts of the lake, nias- 
! kalonge and landlocked salmon, taking 
the troll freely. The latter fish atVord 
magnificent sport for the angler (with 
, live miiuiow for bait) early iu May. at 
j Purleigh Falls; they are seldom caught 
I weighing less than seven pounds, and 
j have been taken over thirty pounds iu 
! weight, and in point of flavor, are excel- 
lent. Summer duck shooting begins the 
middle of August, and remains good 
for four or five weeks, when the Fall 
flight commences. Wilil rice and celery 
grow in great abundance in all of these 
waters, which are visited by millions of 
the duck tribe, until the cold weather 
closes the waters, compelling them to 
i seek a more congenial clime. Stoney 
Tjake, Lovesick Lake, anc" Deer Bay (all 
contiguous), are favorite resorts of the 
deer hunter. They are easy of access, and 
deer are plentiful. Surely the sportsman 
should be satisfied in the heart of such a 
game region as this. 

The Mount Julien Hotel, erected on 
the very shore of Stoney Lake for the 
especial comforts of tourists and sports- 
men, has accommodation for sixty guests, 
with every luxury that could reasonably 
be looked for iu the backwoods of Can- 
ada. In fact, the house is kept only in 
first-class style, and persons desiring to 
take their families for a few weeks vaca- 
tion, will find every inducement for their 
harmless enjoyment. The proj^rietors 
are determined to see that the wants of 
every guest, male or female, man, woman 
or child, are supplied. Sailboats, row- 
boats, and canoes are always at hand. 
Guides, if necessary, can be procured, 
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Americans will prubiibly liiul the chea})- 
(.'st aiul most direct route via llochcstcr. 
Take the steamer at Cliarlotte in the 
evening, ijet a comfortable bertli and a 
jH'ood night's rest Yon reach Fort Hope 
in time for the morning- train, of tlie 
INlidhmd Ra,ilway, pnrchase tickets for 
Lak(!iield, on Lake Katclicwamiook, 
where tlie steamer is in waiting to con- 
vey you to Mount JnUen; time from 
Cliarlotte about fourteen hours ; total 
cost less than $4,00 jier head. Any 
further information desired respecting 
Stoney Lake and vicinity will be cheer- 
fully given on application to Messrs. R. 
C. StrickUuid & Co., North Donro, 
Province of Ontario, Canada. 



THE OSWRGATCHIE COUNTRY. 

The east or main branch of the Os- 
wogatchie River rises in Crooked Lake; 
that is, if we are to call the longest the 
main branch. From Crooked Lake it 
runs in a northeasterly direction some 
six or eight miles, to where it forms the 
branch from Deer Pond (Colvin's Lost 
Lake) country. It is known above this 
point as the Robinson River, taking this 
name from a hunter named Robinson, 
Avho had a shanty and hunted near it 
some twenty-five years ago. In the mean- 
time it received the waters from Orin 
Lake, Grassy Gall, Cracker, West, and 
two or three other small ponds. The 
stream that it here unites with is formed 
l)y the outlets of Partlon Lake, Gull, 
l)ig Deer, Little Deer, Clear and Nick 
l^onds, and the drainage of a big balsam 
swamp known as " Inlet Swamp." Be- 
low the junction, some two miles, it tum- 
bles over a ledge of rocks some twenty 
feet in height. Here, at the foot of these 
falls, known as the " High Falls," on the 
inlet are found speckled trout of three to 
four pounds weight, and now and then 



one that gets aw^ay with your tackle po 
easy that you are sure " he was the big- 
gest trout you ever saw." Above the falls 
are plenty of trout weighing from a quar- 
ter to a half pound. Half a mile further 
down you come to "The Plains," a tract 
of country that has been cleared of tim- 
ber by wind and fire, some three miles 
lo'ig, and varying in width from a quar- 
ter to three-ipiarters of a mile, and near- 
ly surrounded by hills of from three to 
five hundcd feet high. Near tl)o upper 
part of these plains a small sjiring brook 
and very cold spring empty into the riv- 
er from the east side, making a good 
" trout hole " when the water is not too 
high. In the brook are also snuill trout. 
For the next two miles the river is bro- 
ken by several rifts or chains of rocks 
across it, and from two to ten rods in 
length. Over some of them it is neces- 
sary to lift your boat. All along here, 
and for some miles further down, the fish- 
ing is fine, and for a stretch of ten miles 
the chances for a shot at a deer by day 
or jack light is very good. On the west 
side of the river, near the foot of the 
plains, and distant from one and a half 
to two miles, are the " Five Ponds," tak- 
ing their name from their number. These, 
or a part of them, are excellent ponds for 
deer. About this section there is now 
and then a wolf and jtanther; just enough 
to frighteen the timid ones, but not 
enough to pay the hunters who trap for 
them, they seldom getting more than two 
or three in a season. At the foot of this 
still water is some three miles of rapids, 
on which, about the 1st of June, is some 
good fishing. Below these rapids is 
the " Drowned Tjand,"as it is called, be- 
ing a large swamj) overflowed by the 
draining of Cranberry Lake. This lake is 
used as a reservoir from which to obtain 
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for mill purposes iu general. The ori- 
ginal lake was some seven miles long and 
about four miles wide iu the widest part, 
while the overflow of swamp laud is prob- 
ably as much more. When full, the water 
is raised twelve feet on the lakes, which 
damages the sporting somewhat in the 
ealry part of the Summer, but by about 
the 1st of September the water is near- 
ly down to the old bed, and fishing and 
hunting are both good. A dozen or 
more ponds empty into the lake on the 
south and southeast side, among which 
are Bossout, Cat Mountain, Cow Horn, 
Olmstead, Darnneedle, Fish Pole, or Lit- 
tle Grass, as it is some times called. Lit- 
tle Gull, Curtis, and other small ones. 
Is early all of these are good for trout or 
deer, and some of them for both. 

The hunting ground is reached by 
two routes. First — leave the Rome, 
Watertowu & Ogdensburg Railroad at 
Gouveneur, going through Edwards, to 
Fine, twenty-five miles, by stage, three 
times a week, or by private conveyances. 
At Fine you can pnt up at a good hotel, 
or go on five miles to Griffin's, where you 
will find as nice fare and accommoda- 
tions as can be had at a fiist-class faim 
house. Here, or at the hotel, you will 
get good guides with light boats for 
$3 per day and board ; also team — 
usually oxen and sled — to convey boats 
and baggage to the foot of still water 
on the outlet or inlet, as the river is fre- 
quently called above and below the lake. 
Second — you can leave railroad nt Can- 
ton and go direct to the foot of Cran- 
berry Lake by team. The distance is 
about forty miles and is accomplished in 
a day. You can purchase good light 
boats weighing thirty to forty pounds 
at Canton, or hire rather poor ones at 
the hotel at the lake. You can get 
there with or without guides. Finally, 



there is plenty of work connected with a 
trip to this part of the woods, and the 
lazy ones had better stay at home. But 
those who are willing to rough it a Jit- 
tie can have a good time. 

' IN NORTHWEST IOWA. 

Riding north from Algona, which is 
on the Chicago, Milwaukee c^ Saint 
, Paul Railroad, you enter upon an ele- 
vated prairie plateau, which runs west- 
wards to the Sioux River, embracing 
numerous beautiful lakes, well stocked 
with every variety of fish known to this 
: latitude. The pickerel, wall-eyed pike, 
' muskalonge and black and green bats, 
I and crappy dominating. Ten miles from 
the Iowa line in Minnesota is Fairmont, 
on the Southern Minnesota Railroad. 
Fairmont, tour hundred and seventy-five 
I miles from St. Louis, is a most inviting 
, field for hunting and fishing. It is upon the 
Centre Chain lakes: East Chain, Cen- 
I tre Chain and West Chain from the main 
group of lakes there, with fom-teen ad- 
I ditional ones within a radius of twelve 
miles from Fairmont. Commencing five 
i miles east of Fairmont, the East Chain 
I running from north to south, is composed 
' of thirteen lakes, the most southerly 
one of the group approaching near the 
I Iowa line being a deep, clear lake, about 
I four and a half miles long by one and a 
I half in width, and the other lakes, ex- 
tending northward, varying iu size from 
; one to three miles in length. The East 
I Chain has seventeen lakes, extending 
I twenty-four miles upon a direct line from 
north to south, their borders covered 
with fine oak, walnut, sugar maple, and 
other timber trees, in the season covered 
^ with water fowl and filled with the finest 
fish, within thirty hours of St. Louis by 
i rail. 
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the million, ■while it is the great halting 
lield of the geese, swan, brant, duck and 
crane, hi the Fall npon their flight to the 
South. ;Manv of these lakes the hook of 
the angler has never disturbed,, while 
myriads of the iiuest fresh water fish 
sport in their limpid waters. A colony 
of English farmers, some of them grad- 
uates of Oxford, hospitable and refined, 
have located around Fairmont, and ap- 
pear to enjoy all the luxuries of rural j 
life. They have brought with them the 
English taste for field sports, have a 
kennel of tweuty-four hounds, some fine 
iiuported English huuters, and are al- 
Avays ready for a fox or wolf hunt, fre- 
quently chasing the wolves twenty miles 
before they are captured. They are a 
jolly set, and are very kindly spoken of 
by all the farmers in the vicinity. 

Nine miles west of Fairmont is the 
West Chain, which contains ten lakes, 
the largest, " Okamauapadee," seven 
miles long and very deep; the southerly 
half of the lakes flowing into the Des 
>[oines and northerly ones into St. 
Peter's River. Outside of these chains 
are fourteen other lake equally as at- 
tractive. 

From Teuhasson, on this chain, forty 
miles westward, on the same grand and 
fertile prairie plateau, passing endless 
beautiful lakes, and now and then a 
homestead settler, is Spirit Lake, in 
Dickinson county, Iowa. This and the 
East and West " Okaligi" lakes, all con- 
nected by outlets, are growing to be 
quite a resort for sportsmen and anglers 
from the East, Boston and New York 
furnishing their annual quota. They are 
large, clear, beautiful lakes, and filled 
with fish of every variety. A gentleman 
who tried his hand at fishing, although 
the wind was blowing a northwest g;ile 
at the time, caught thirty-two fine fish 



from off the bridge between Okaligi and 
Spirit Lake, aggregating over one- 
hundred pounds in weight, embracing 
pickerel, wall-eyed pike, mubkalouge, 
and green bass, the three last ofiCering 
fine sport, as they came to the shore 
with great reluctance. It is no unusual 
thing in the season to see a ton of fish 
taken with the hook upon this bridge. 
The Scandinavian farmers, who compose 
a majority of the settlers, salt and dry 
them for Summer use. Indeed, if one did 
not tire of such food, fish and wild game, 
with little labor in taking them, could 
be made to supply the table all the year 
round. 

The sportsman and angler should by all 
means visit the Chain Lakes in the Fall, 
and to every one in search of invigorating, 
pure, bracing air and consequent health, 
no better resort can be found in the Uni- 
ted States, the only drawback being suit- 
able accommodations for families. For 
fishing and hunting parties everything is 
ready. Every fiirmer in the three coun- 
ties will welcome you as a brother, and 
no danger of the Chain lake fiasco being- 
repeated among these hospitable fron- 
tiersmen, most of whom were eight years 
ago homesteaders. 

NEW GAME FIELDS. 

The extension line of the St. Paul «S: 
Pacific railroad having been completed 
to its terminus at the British boundary 
line, has made accessible a splendid 
game country to sportsmen. The com- 
pletion of this extension, in connection 
with the Pembina branch of the Cana- 
dian Pacific, makes a continuous line of * 
four hundred and eighty-three miles, and 
binds together by ties of iron the capi- 
tals of Minnesota and Manitoba. This 
line of raih'oad has not only opened up for 
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River Valley, but it has also made easy 
of access to the sportsman the most ex- 
tensive hunting grounds on this conti- 
nent, stocked with a greater variety of 
game than may be found elsewhere with- 
in the limits of a single season's excursion. 
Starting from St. Paul by the main 
line of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, 
to the trains of which elegant sleeping- 
cars are attached, the sportsman-tourist 
will in less than twenty-four hours find 
himself in the lower Red River Valley 
in the northwestern corner of Minnesota. 
On the prairies anywhere in this region 
the sharp-tailed grouse is abundant, and 
in the timbered bottom lands o*' Red 
River and its numerous tributaries there 
is good woodcock shooting and plenty 
of ruifed grouse. In the immediate 
vicinity of the railroad a few settlers 
have established themselves within the 
last year or two, but toward the east, 
for a distance of two hundred and fifty 
miles, extends an unbroken, almost un- 
explored wilderness, where the deer, the 
moose, tlie elk, and the bear as yet roam 
in undisturbed security. 

Getting tired of venison, grouse, nnd 
woodcock the sportsman may again take 
the northward bound train, and a jour- 
ney of a few hours will land him inAVin- 
nipeg, the capital of ^[auitoba. 

He will here find a city of some eight 
thousand inhabitants, which in the intel- 
ligence and cultivation of its people and 
substantiality and even elegance of its 
buildings, will lose nothing vrheu com- 
pared with any AVestern city of equal 
population and much greater pretentions. 
The city is prosperous, growing fast, and 
doing an immense business, being the 
entrepot of the whole British northwest. 
The hotel accommodations are excellent. 
The country about the foot of Lake 
Winnipeg is low and marshy, and scarce- 



ly in any part above the level of the 
lake. In Autumn the shallow lakes and 
the streams thereabouts are covered 
with water fowl — ducks, geese, pelicans 
and swans — which halt on their migrat- 
ing journeys southward. The pursuit of 
the goose becomes, under these circum- 
stances, a pleasure not lightly to be ne- 
glected. It is the practice of many in- 
habitants to encamp on the banks: of the 
small ponds, and lay in supplies of 
feathered game for Winter consumption. 
A little later on the game freezes, and 
it requires no further curing to be kept 
fresh until the next May. The geese, 
after resting on the water all night, 
rei)air to the gravel beds among the 
marshes at early dawn to take in ballast, 
without which they do not fly well. 
About these beds the sportsmen build 
brush or reed screens, and at short range 
secure many geese. A good shot has 
been known to kill forty inside of an 
hour, without moving from his screen. 
Having rested, take steamer down Red 
River and Lake Winnipeg to the mouth 
of Saskatchewan. Here have your traps 
transferred to one of the several steam- 
boats plying on this great stream. Once 
on board you may, by this means of con- 
veyance, without fatigue or trouble, 
reach the heart of the continent and 
penetrate, if such should be your desire, 
to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. 
The valley of the Saskatchewan is one of 
the finest and largest in America, and is 
a great game resort. The varieties are 
about the same as those of western 
Dacotah, Montana, and Idaho— the 
butlalo (in untold multitudes), the grizzly, 
black, and cinnamom bear, the elk, deer, 
and antelope, and feathered game in 
great variety and abundance. At any 
of the forts or trading-posts of the Hud- 
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House, for instance, at Fort Carleton, 
or at Battleford, the new capital of the 
Nortlnvestorn Territory — the gentleman- 
sportsman will find hospitable reception 
by kindred spirits, good accommodations, 
and oilers of every facility and assist- 
ance. 

Returning to the month of the Sas- 
katchewan, if there is any time to spare, 
a trip is recommended to the north end 
of Lake Winnipeg, which is not distant. 
The sportsman will then find himself in 
the land of the caribou and the willow 
grouse. The former is very abundant in 
the timber belt, which toward the mn-th- 
west extends in the direction of Lake 
Atabasca, and the latter, perfectly reli- 
able parties say, is swarming on the 
open barrens, which toward the north- 
east stretch out all the way to Hudson 
Bay. Tnose who have tasted the plea- 
sures of partridge shooting in Newfound- 
land or a grouse hunt on the British 
moors will not hesitate to go a good dis- 
tance out of their way to enjoy once 
more this delightful sport, and here it 
can be had to perfection. 

For his homeward trip the traveler 
had better take the same" route that 
brought him within the dominion of 
Queen Victoria. There is, however, 
from Winnipeg another route, known as 
the " Dawson road," by way of Lake of 
the Woods and the Rainy Lake Region, 
along the boundary between Minnesota 
and the Province of Kewatiu. But the 
first one hundred and twenty-five miles 
of this road, from Winnipeg, is overland 
and will entail more hardship than all 
the journey from the Atlantic seaboard 
to the outmost post on the Saskatche- 
wan. It is simply horrid, leading over 
corduroyed swaniips for a great part of 
the way. Once on the Lake of the 
Woods, however, you are amjjly repaid. 



Nice little steamers provided by the 
Canadian Government will carry you 
over the most enchanting lakes, and at 
the several ))()rtngrs ;ire good camping 
grounds. The bai ks are high and 
rocky, the waters, clear as crystal, are 
filled Avith fish — pickerel, pike, black 
bass, whitefish &c. — and the surround- 
ing country is well stocked with game 
of the same varities as are found in 
Northern Minnesota, excepting the i)in- 
uated and sharp-tailed grouse; but the 
ruffed grouse is found in goodly numbers 
and now and then the spruce partridge. 
Ijake Saganaga, near the eastern termi- 
nus of this remarkable expanse of water, 
is one of the most beautiful lakes in the 
whole Northwest, surrounded by enchant- 
ing scenery. The end of this route will 
put the traveler down at the mouth of 
Pigeon River on the shore of Lake 
Superior. 

A correspondent of a weekly cotem- 
porary thus descril)es some of the hunt- 
ing and fishing points along the main 
line of the First Division of the St. Paul 
& Pacific Railroad that are taken in 
on this route : 

For .sportsmen visitinp; Minnesota in search 
of health, recreation or amusement, no part of 
the State ofters better opportunities than the 
region traversed by the "Main Line of the First 
Division of tlie St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, 
with its extension in the Valley of the Red 
River of the North." 

Leaving St. Paul and Miinicapolis, tin's road 
runs in a northwesterly direction for 216 miles 
to Breckenridge at the confluence of the Red 
River and the Bois to Sionx, and thence nearly 
due north, parallel with llie first mentioned 
watercourse, from 120 miles more through the 
beautiful and fertile Red River valley, and will' 
doubtless, before the end of next year, be com- 
pleted to the boundaries of Uncle Sam's 
possessions on the confines of Manitoba, con- 
necting there with the railroad .system of the 
British Dominion. This is in every respect 
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and palace cars. The officers are courteous 
and attentive, and— what to a sponsmaii is of 
great importance — the bn<rc;ajre- masters will 
taice very good care of their dogs at trifling 
charges. 

For the first seventy miles the road passes 
through a dense forest of hard wood, the 
"Grand Boi>i" of the French fur traders in 
ante-lerritorial times. Deer are here quite 
plenty, and ruffed grouse very abundant and in 
the numerous lakes good pickerel, pike and 
black bass fishing is found. If you are a fol- 
lower of good old IzuuJv Walton make your 
first stop at Wayzata, where tlie beautiful Lake 
Miunetouka, one of the finest in Minnesota, 
offers you unusual oppori unities, and where 
the hotel accommodations are very good. 
Farther on through the woods a sportsman 
may find suitable quarters at almost any station 
but Howard L;ike, Cokato and Dassel are 
recommended. 

At Darwin you get tiie first glimpse of the 
great Northwest 'ra prairie. Grovts scattered 
here and there between grain fields, lakes and 
stretches of naiive prairie, are at first numer- 
ous ; but, as you proceed westward, they 
gradually diminish in numbers and extent, 
until after passing Hermann, aot a tree is in 
sight for fort.y miles. 

In this beautiful country between Darwin 
and Hermann, the pinnated grouse is found 
everywhere quite plenty, and in certain places 
there is excellent duck and goese shooting, 
notably in the neighborhood of Litchfield, 
Atwater (at the Kandigohi lakes), Willmar, 
Morris and Hermann. lu nil the places com- 
fortable accommodations they maybe had at 
reasonable prices, and also teams to carry the 
sportsmen to the hunting grounds. At Her- 
mann you bid good-bye to lake and grove and 
enter a sea of waving grass, the famous valley 
of the Red River of the North. 

Sojourning in this valley, the observant 
sportsman can hardly fail to notice some new 
features as well in the flora as the fauna of 
tliis region when compared with that of the 
more eastern parts of Minnesota. Instead of 
the usual varieties of prairie grass you find 
the biuich or buffalo grass of the plains. 
Tiie common deer has nearly disappeared and 
is supplanted by the elk, and farther north by 
the moose. Tlie pinnated grouse is now 
scarce, but its sharp-tailed congenor become 



more and more numerous; and to those sports- 
men who- would wish to find this, the finest 
game bird of the grouse fanuly, in multitudes 
in the Red River valley, we say, do not delay 
until it is too late, for the Red River valley 
in its length and breadth will soon be trans- 
formed into a waving wheat field, and as this 
noble bird afflects not settlements, he will soon 
retire to tiie wild prairies and oak openings, 
less likely lo be disturbed by the presence of 
man. Among other changes in the animal 
kingdom may be mentioned that our well 
known little cotton-tail is seen here no more, 
and its place is occupied by its larger cousin, 
the jack-rubbit, the common Western brant is 
supplanted by that most beautiful of the An- 
seriu,T3, the snow goose, which here may be 
seen in flocks by the hundred ; and the smaller 
curlew so commou along the eastern parts of 
the road, gives room to the sickle-bill. Doubt- 
less there are many other changes. 

After leaving Hermann there is as yet, on a 
stretch of 150 miles, oilly three stopping places 
with fair hotel accommodations — Breckenridge 
where there are good geese, duck, grouse find 
woodcock shooting ; Glyndon, where this road 
intersects with the Northern Pacific, and 
Crookstown, near the present terminus. 
Around the two little places the sharp-tailed 
grouse is found in great abundance. 

THE LAND OP DAKOTA. 

YAXKTOX. 

It is evident that this is a new coun- 
try, from the game that is so pleuty all 
around. Of course, the buffalo have 
left this section, although several have 
been killed recently in Eastern Dakota 
— one only a few miles west of Water- 
town, the western terminus of the Win- 
ona & St. Peter Railroad; others west 
and north of Fargo. The deer are gone 
to the Black Hills and the country of 
the Yellowstone; but the antelope re- 
main — much like the Fienchman's flea, 
and about as hard to catch or shoot. 
Antelope steaks are plenty during the 
Winter months. In the way of feath- 
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ducks, praii'ie chicken (sonio of the sharp- 
tailed fellows, too), (luail, snipe and a 
few woodcock. 

It would do an Eastern sportsman's 
heart good to see the millions of geese 
and ducks that cover the i^rairics in the 
Fall, not to speak of tlie chickens. 

The chickens assemble along in Octo- 
ber in immense flocks, and exercise such 
wonderful vigilance that it is almost im- 
possible to approach near enough for a 
shot. They are fat and good, and 
grain-fed. 

The boys capture lots of geese (with 
shot) going to and returning from their 
feeding grounds to the sand-bars in the 
Missouri River. They fly out to and 
from the grain fields at morning and 
night, crossing the railroad just below 
the city in large numbers. The boys 
take cover in the willows along the bank, 
and shoot them as they fly. The fusi- 
lade sounds like a skirmish line. 

For pinnated grouse look near the 
settlements, especially near wheat fields. 
Very few, comparatively speaking, are 
found out on the open prairies, away 
from the settlements. 

It is of but little use to attempt to 
shoot wild geese on the large lakes. Up 
North they rear their young. You must 
wait for their Autumnal flight South, 
and shoot them as they do at Yankton 
when they halt for food and rest. There 
is good shooting at Yankton for weeks 
nfter the waters of Northern Dakota, 
Minnesota, and Michigan are closed by 
th(3 ice king, 

S|)ortsmen wishing a good long sea- 
son, with plenty of feathered game, are 
advised to go to the vicinity of Yank- 
ton. There are first-class hotels, and 
sportsmen can purchase everything need- 
ed of the public-spirited dealers in such 
goods, right on the ground there; and 



citizens of Yankton will extend a sports- 
man's welcome to all who may visit that 
section for the purpose of enjoying the 
fine sport that can be had on the abun- 
dant game fields, 

BISMARCK, 

In the immediate vicinity of Bismarck, 
Dakota Territory, it is often, in the 
Winter, too cold for hunting, although 
game is plenty close by town. On the 
train, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 
going down to Jamestown, large herds 
of antelopes are often seen, in easy rifle 
shot of the road, and only ten or twenty 
miles from Bismarck. The timber down 
by the Missouri River is alive with 
prairie chickens, but they enjoy a degree 
of immunity, only tempered by the num- 
ber of degrees which the mercury passes 
below the 0. About forty miles south- 
east of Bismarck is a large sheet of 
water called Long Lake. A party 
consisting of three well-known shots, who 
camped out there in October, 1878, for 
three days, bagged three antelope, two 
jack-rabbits, one fox, seven swan, sixteen 
geese, ninty-seven ducks and eight couple 
of snipe. The lake was literally alive 
with water fowl of all descriptions, and 
the party actually tired of the shooting, 
it approximating too close to slaughter. 
AtRhude's Ranche, about forty-five miles 
north from Bismarck, on the Fort Ber- 
thold trail, were killed by three hunters, 
in three days, forty-one deer and three 
antelope. The meat was brought into 
town and sold at four cents per pound. 
Two buffaloes v/ere killed about sixteen 
miles from town by some teamsters. 
They had probably been separated from 
the herd and wandered down from the 
North. Living mountain streams well 
stocked with trout, flow through this 
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buffalo, anteloix\ deer, and uumerous 
small game abound. The principal 
stream is Big Spring Creek, which never 
freezes up. It has for its source a mon- 
ster spring in the Judith Mountains 
The Indians call it Spotted Fish Creek 
Ironi the large number of beautiful trout 
found in it. No trouble is had in catch- 
ing as many as are wished for, with the 
ordinary tackle, of from one to four 
pounds weight apiece. The Indians 
have long used this place as a favorite 
hunting ground, and are extremely 
jealous of the intruding white man. This 
spice of danger renders the locality 
peculiarly interesting, as the ardent 
sportsman has a chance of having his 
scalp lifted by " Poor Lo!" It is stated 
that a few years ago three men, in six 
■weeks, killed fifteen hundred deer, in 
the near vicinity of the Judith Basin, 
for their hides alone. A successful 
slaughter in reality. 



IN THE PELICAN STATE. 

VARIED AXD WELL-STOCKED GAME REGION. 

Opelousas, Louisiana, is a fine game 
country. A few miles east of Opelousas, 
are the lov.laiids of bayous Teche and 
Courtableau, and in the canebrakes of 
the swianpy country between these ba- 
yous and the Atchafalaya River are plen- 
ty of bear, and frequently in November 
(the best time to hunt them) that whole 
region, though subject to overflow in the 
Spring, is so dry that water is scarce for 
man and beast. It is the primitive for- 
est, without human habitation; inhabited 
onlv by panthers, wild-cats, bears, deer, 
raccoons, opossums, ».^'c., and some mos- 
quitoes in warm weather. At a short dis- 
tance on the north and west are pine 
woods, with deer and wild turkeys, and 
clear streams, home of the black (green) 
bass. For a hundred miles and over, 



west and southwest, are prairies reach- 
ing to Texas, interspersed with timber 
along the streams, and southward to the 
marshes of the Gulf. In these prairies 
are the pinnated grouse, and also snipe, 
ducks, geese, &c., in their reason, and 
formerly deer ; and in some "Winters, the 
finest woodcock shooting in the world 
can be had in the immediate neighbor- 
hood of Opelousas. Partridges (Bob 
White) are over the whole country, and 
in the prairie fields afford much better 
sport shooting them than in fields sur- 
rounded by woods. In the marshes near 
the Gulf thousands of geese and ducks 
are killed annually simply for their fea- 
thers. From Opelousas to Grand Lake, 
in Calcasieu Parish, is about two days' 
drive through that laud of the prairie 
chicken, and snipe during the season ; 
from there to the month of tht- Calcasieu 
River by sailboat is only a few liouis ; 
and the game there is an abundance of 
red and other fish, oysters, ducks, geese, 
prairie "chicken, snipe, and other game. 
More can be combined in such a trip, 
through prairie and woodland, through 
fresh water to salt water, than rn any 
other one from this point. Two weeks 
or three will cover it, and afford sufficient 
time for pleasure. Opelousas is an out 
of the way place, seldom visited by 
Northern tourists, but there is a greater 
variety of game there, than any other 
part of the South. There are two routes 
from New Orleans— one by rail to Mor- 
gan City, thence up the Teche by boat 
to New Iberia, thence forty-seven miles 
through the prairie by stage to Opelou- 
sas ; the other route, the pleasautest and 
most traveled, is by boat, up the Missis- 
sippi to the mouth of the Red River, 
then down the Atchafalaya to mouth of 
the bayou Courtableau, and up the lat- 
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lousas, where hacks are always ready to 
convey passengers to the latter place. 
The best hotel in the State, outside of 
New Orleans, is iu Opelousas. 

WHKRK WOODCOCK C0N15HEGATE— DUCKS, 
GEESE, AND QUAII,. 

V'crniillion Parish, is a good shooting 
ground. Immense flocks of geese and 
ducks feed on the marshes in tne Winter, 
and glorious woodcock and snipe shoot- 
ing can be had in season, together with 
plovers and sandpipers. Quail (called 
there partridge) are in full force, and 
afford excellent sport when the law al- 
lows them to be shot. From Christmas 
till the middle of February, the wood- 
cock are there iu immense numbers, and 
are in fine order. Hunting these birds in 
Ijouisiana is very different from the same 
kind of sport in the North. The season, 
the place, and the action of the bird are 
all changed iu Louisiana. Woodcock 
are not found there in warm weather — 
no sweltering heat, no spoiling' of birds 
before you can get them home. On the 
contrary, the weather is cold and the air 
bracing ; the birds will keep a week or 
two, and greatly improve by keeping 
hung up a few days. Thousands of them 
are sent to the New Orleans market. In 
the Abbeville market they sell for fifty 
cents a dozen. The birds are to be found 
by day in the thick woods and briar 
patches, in warm, dry, sunny spots. In 
such places they spend the day, and there 
they are to be hunted. At night they 
fly out into the prairies to feed in marshy 
places. Dogs go into the thickets and 
flush the birds, while the shooter takes 
them as they rise. It is no sickly, lum- 
bering flight your Louisiana woodcock 
makes. He comes up out of the cover 
like a flash, makes a dart, and drops out 
of sight in an instant behind the thick- 



et. It takes a pretty quick workman and 
a sure eye to stop his flight. The woods 
are full of them. Any one that can make 
a good wing shot cannot fail to get plen- 
ty, even if he misses three out of four 
birds, and twenty birds is a common day's 
work for any country lout or a negro to 
make. The prairies, too, arc full of snipe 
in season. 



BLACKFISH LAKE. 

Black Fit^h Lake is situated in Crit- 
tenden county, Arkansas, some twenty- 
five miles from Memphis, Tennessee, via 
the Mississippi & Little Rock llailroad. 
The lake is about ten miles in length, 
and from a quarter to a half a mile in 
width, with a depth of from ten to thirty 
feet, and in its waters sport the blacks 
and striped bass, black, yellow, and 
speckled porch, pike, brim, and the usual 
varieties of coarse fish natural to the cli- 
mate. Both banks are heavily timbered, 
and covered with dense cane-brakes, the 
cover of the black bear, deer, and tur- 
key, which in their season afford ample 
sport with the gun and dogs, the lattei' 
being indispensable auxiliaries for driv- 
ing the bear and deer from their fortress 
in the cane, 

lewis' lake. 

This lake cannot be stu'passed as a 
pleasant resort. It is situated on the 
highest range of the Allegheny Moun- 
tains, accessible by railroad to Muncy, 
Pennsylvania, then by stage coach twen- 
ty miles up the mountains — one of the 
most delightful rides imaginable. The 
lake covers about three hundred and fifty 
acres, and contains brook trout, lake 
trout, and a variety of other species. 
The brook trout fishing is to be found 
iu the many small mountains wliich nead 
close by; but the rarest sport is the duck 
shooting, birds always being plenty. 



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IN OREGON. 

In a great 8tate like Oregon hav- 
ing the smallest population of any 
Commonwealtli in the Union, and 
embracing nearly 5,300 square miles 
more than New York and Pennsyl- 
vania combined, where game and fish 
are so abundant in almost every sec- 
tion, it seems somewhat needless to 
designate the various hunting and 
fishing localities. Better sports may 
perhaps be had in Idaho and Wash- 
ington Territories adjoining, but if 
such be the case, we have no knowl- 
edge of the fact. Mountain sheep, 
elk, deer, antelope, black and grizzly 
bears, panthers, wild cats, and other 
four-footed game are found in the 
greatest abundance through the Cas- 
cade range of mountains, extending 
from California on the south to the 
Columbia River on the nortli, run- 
ning nearly through the centre of the 
State, and forming, in connection 
with the Coast Range, the William- 
ette Valley, through which it is con- 
templated to build the California & 
Oregon Railroad. This road is now 
running from Portland to Roseburg, 
and the balance is in course of con- 
struction from Roseburg to Redding, 
and when completed will give direct 
commnnication with Sau Francisco, 
and afford easy access to the excellent 
hunting and grounds on the route. 
Besides the four-footed game already 
mentioned, feathered game is also 
found in the greatest abundance, in- 
cluding swans, geese, ducks, brandt, 
and all other known varieties of wild- 
fowl, grouse, quail, and other game- 
birds. Every lake, river, and stream, 
teem with cboicefish — salmon, brook 
trout, halibut cod, smelts, &c. The 
salmon fisheries of Columbia River 



are the most valuable in the world, 
yielding a revenue of several millions 
of dollars annually. Trout streams 
are intersi)ersed through the State in 
all directions, being most abundant 
in the mountain districts. As to the 
wild-fowl, we have a letter now be- 
fore us, the writer of which lives a 
few miles from Salem, which informs 
us that " the ducks and geese are an 
intolerable nuisance, as they destroy 
yearly nearly one-half the grain crop. 
In the Fall and Spring the corn and 
wheat fields are fairly covered with 
them, and from their incessant honk- 
ing and quacking, one would supi)ose 
that they were discussing some grave 
and important political subject or in- 
vestigating 'ciphers.' What the le- 
gislature ever afforded them protec- 
tion for is past the comprehension of 
anyone outside the insane asylum. 
These depredations are not confined 
to this section, but will apply to the 
whole State where a farm is under 
cultivation. If some of the sports- 
men of the East would only come out 
here they would not only enjoy the 
very best of sport, but would render 
the granges of this "duck-ridden" 
State an ever-lasting favor." 

The writer also tells us that " in 
the mountains and forests elk and 
deer abound, and bear meat can be 
had in abundance by those who like 
to undertake that rather hazardous 
task of pursuing it." 

Among the many localities where 
excellent sport can be enjoyed men- 
tion is made of Astoria, Rainer, and 
Columbia, situated on the Columbia 
River, in the northwest part of the 
State ; Hillsboro' and Gaston, on the 
Oregon Central, a short ride from 
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Grove, Amermans, and other points 
on the California & Oregon Eailroad; 
and Waldo and Kirbyville, located in 
tlic Coast Range, near the California 
line. These points are situated in the 
Williamette Valley, the most thickly- 
settled portion of the State, and game 
and fish are abundant at either, con- 
sisting of the varieties already men- 
tioned, affording snfficient sport for 
either Nimrod or Fishrod. Astoria, 
Eiiiuer, and Columbia is within easy 
access of the finest salmon fishing in 
the world. Clatsop Beach, at Astoria, 
is a noted Summer resort for the res- 
idents of San Francisco. Amermans 
is but a short distance from the Cas- 
cade Mountains, the home of the elk, 
the deer, the bear, and the fountain- 
head of many trout streams ; and on 
the east side, at the base of the moun- 
tains, near tlie California boundary 
line, is Fort Klamath, located at the 
liead (or north) of Upper Klamath 
Lake — a large body of water, filled 
with choice fish and a noted resort 
for every conceivable variety of wild 
fowl. A short distance from the fort 
is an extensive swamp, known as the 
the Klamath Marsh, amid the dense 
covers of which Mr. Bruin has made 
his residence, comjoaratively secure 
from the intrusion of man. Along 
the edges of the marsh and the lake 
shores snipe and plover congregate ih 
large numbers. Waldo and Kirby- 
ville are good starting points for deer 
and bear hunting. 

The places mentioned are reached 
by taking the steamers at San Fran- 
cisco to Astoria, thence rail down the 
Williamette Valley to Roseburg, the 
S)uthern terminus of the California 
& Oregon Railroad, thence stage to 
Redding, at which point take the cars 



for San Francisco; or take the cars at 
San Francisco and reverse the route. 
The trij) will prove a delightful one, 
and aff"ord the tourist a view of some 
of the grandest scenery in the coun- 
try. Another route is, to leave the 
cars at Winnemucca, on the Union 
Pacific Railroad, from which point a 
line of stages run to Camp Winfield 
Scott ; from Camp Scott there is a 
road to Fort Klamath (before men- 
tioned), passing Camp McGarry' and 
Fort Bidwell. From Fort Klamath, 
strike across Cascade Mountains to 
Jacksonville, or go down Upper Kla- 
math Lake to Klamathlito, thence 
private conveyance to Amermans and 
so on up the valley, as before stated. 
It is " a hard road to travel," but Avill 
infuse new life into sluggish veins. 

The Blue Mountain Region, in the 
northeast of the State, is a fine game 
and fish country, comprising all the 
varieties we have mentioned. This 
section is reached by dropping off the 
cars on the Union Pacifiic R;iilroad 
at Kelton, thence by stage to Boise 
City, in Idaho. From Boise City, a 
tri-weekly line of stages run north- 
west to Dallas City, via Canon City, 
and a daily line, taking a more north- 
erly direction, runs to Umatilla, on 
the Columbia River, passing through 
Baker, Union, LaGrande, Marshall,, 
and Pendlet'on, at either of which lo- 
calities accommodations can be had. 
Stages also leave Winnemucca, on the 
Union Pacific, daily, for Boise City,. 
via Camp Winfield Scott, Fort Me- 
Dermit, Camp Three Forks, and Sil- 
ver City. 

If we mistake not, there is a road 
leading from Dallas City to Warm 
Springs and Prine, at the base of the 
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Lunesville and Three Rivers at foot 
(east side) of the Cascade Mountains. 

To say that elk, mountain sheep, 
deer, bears, rabbits, grouse, trout, and 
other varieties of game and tisli have 
been sprinkled with a lavish hand 
throughout the entire region, is only 
repeating that which has already been 
told. The country is full of wild and 
magniticent scenery, to see which is 
alone worth while taking the trip. It 
is between four and five hundred 
miles from Kelton to Umatilla on 
the Columbia River. 

With the exception of the portions 
described, all that part of the State 
east of the Cascade Mountains is a 
a vast plain, better known as the 
Sage Desert. 

DOWN IN FLORIDA. 

JUPITER INLET. 

This spot is beyond all question the 
sportsman's earthly paradise. The shoot- 
ing is superb, and the fishing simply 
wonderful. Florida has no more tempt- 
ing hniitiiig and fishing grounds than in 
the section of country lying between 
lakes Worth and Jupiter on the one side 
and Lake Okeecluibee on the other. 
Deer and bear are in sufficient num- 
bers to make it light work bagging that 
sort of game, while quail, snipe, curlew, 
turkey, and every variety of duck, give 
the ardent wing-shot all and more than 
he can ask. 

Mosquitoes and sand-flies are unknown 
during the day, and at night a bar of 
sand-Hy-netting offers ample security. 

The country is far more diversified in 
its character and appearance than at any 
other locality on the coast, and every- 
thing combines to make it the objective 
point for northern shootists. 

To parties intending a trip down the 



Florida coast. Col. James Knapp, deputy 
collector of customs for the port of New 
Smyrna, and Capt. Abbott, a local cel- 
ebrity, bear-slayer and guide, are recom- 
mended as either host or guide. They 
are both good sportsmen, and the colo- 
nel is a Northern man. Abbott is an old 
soldier of the confederacy, the hero of 
thirty-seven battles. To those requiring 
a huge boat, and fit out at Sand Point, 
should not forget tlie genial McCarthy. 
To an inexhaustible fund of lunnor, he 
adds excellent judgment and a thorough 
knowledge of the country. 



THE LAKE REGION. , 

Around these lovely lakes almost any j 
sportsman can get his fill of the finest , 
shooting of quail and duck. A great j 
deal of land around these lakes are old \ 
fields, cleared land, and on these fields 
are many coveys of quails (called par- , 
fridges by the natives). Quail here ] 
hardly know what a gun is. In fact the \ 
only unsatisfactory part of the business ' 
is, the ease with which they can be shot, 
and you will soon learn that there can be 
too many birds, sometimes, to make ■ 
quail shooting interesting. But how en- 
joyable the beautiful Winter days are! 
The warm sunshine all about you, yet 
the air just bracing enough to make you 
feel like tramping or riding; so different 
from the hot sun and hot sand of Sum- 
mer. As stated above, the old fields 
abound with quail in, generally, large 
coveys. They lie very close, and one can 
often walk throu<2:h them without flush- 
ing. They are strong and swift on the 
wing, and are every way similar to the 
Eastern quail. They are as plenty in the 
pine woods, but they fly into the tree 
tops, and tlv^n are hardly moved again. 
In the field there is no cover but grass, 
and with a dog one can have all the 



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shooting he wants. Change No. 9 shot | Waldo, then eight miles' 



wagon 



ride 



for No. 4, and take a row around Lake 
Santa Fe, or any other about there, and 
you immediately have a change of sport. 
The edges of the lake are fringed with 
grass and bonnets, with little bays of the 
same, every now and then, making a per- 
fect home for duck. Ask the darkey 
who is leaning against that tree, grinning 
at you and your gun, to pusli you around 
in a flat-bottom boat among the bonnets 
and grass. He'll do it all day for two 
bits. In this way you will again get all 
the shooting you want; or if you get 
tired of that, place yourself in some 
cover or some knoll between any two 
lakes toward sundown, and take them as 
they fly over. They are there every 
Winter, and will be until the last of 
March or the 1st of April. But shoot- 
ing at this game grows monotonous 
after a while, be it ever so good, and 
variety is the spice of life with sports- 
men as well as with all other classes. 
To get this, start for the sandhills for 
deer, or to the hammock for turkey. 
You will have to go three, four or five 
miles, perhaps, and you had better cal- 
culate to stay two or three days and 
have a good camp hunt. A good bed 
and good accommodations— very essen- 
tial after a day's tramp — can be found 
right on the banks of Santa Fe Lake. 
Mr. Lambdin's house is near, and over- 
looks the lake. His charges are moder- 
ate — $5 per week. Here you will be 
sure to receive the best of treatment, and 
everything will be done to make your 
stay pleasant, and on leaving you will be 
glad to have met him and to call him a 
friend, and will want to come back again. 
This is also just the place to make head- 
quarters. From here you can go out in 
almost any direction for hunting excur- 
Getting off Transit Railroad at 



will bring you to this region. 



CALOOSAHATCHIE BIG CYPRESS SWAMP 

THE EVERGLADES. 

If there is in the United States a dis- 
trict of country that can excel the Ca- 
loosahatchie and the country south and 
east from it to the Big Cypress and 
Everglades, in its attractions to the 
sportsman, it must indeed be a wonder- 
ful country for game. The quail, wild 
ducks, wild turkey and deer, are as plen- 
tiful in this region as the most ardent 
sportsman could desire ; and then the 
Caloosahatchie and Charlotte Harbor 
abound in fish — in fact, it cannot be ex- 
celled in the quantity, quality, and vari- 
ety of the fishes. During Winter the 
climate is not to be surpassed, cool enough 
for healthful excercise, and never cold 
enough for discomfort. The country is 
open and the land firm. A horse at full 
speed can be ridden ahuost anywhere 
without roads or paths. Nowhere else 
can the sportsman have such variety. 
Upon the water there is good fishing, 
unsurpassed in any country ; numerous 
water birds with rare plumage, and sea 
shells of great variety and beauty. Upon 
the land, if an attempt were made to de- 
scribe the quantity of wild t.irkeys and 
deer, it would hardly be believ 1. One 
fact will illustrate: Three In '.i.ms who 
were hunting upon the borde.s of Big 
Cypress, killed, in fifteen days, ninety- 
seven deer, and as they killed these deer 
for the bides, they killed only such as 
were large, and the skins of wliich were 
saleable. 

The sportsman, to enjoy fully a few 
months' sojourn in this region, should go 
prepared to take care of himself. It 
would be best that several gentlemen 
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teuts, the necessary provisions, and a iy mail for South Florida. Isot very far, 
good cook; and for exploring and hunt- one would say, to travel for good sport. 
iujT iu the country south of the Caloa^^a- Well, it isn't, over a fine road and with 
hatchie, it would be necessary to have a i a lively team; but good roads and lively 
light wagon and two mules for trauspor- 1 teams are not fouud in this part of Flo- 
tation. Nowhere else on the American: rida. On arriving at the lake, you can 
continent could a party, supplied as iudi-. catch an unhmited number of black bass, 
cated, find a bettor field for hunting, or! shoot deer and turkeys until yon get 
a climate more pleasant, and greater at- 1 tired, and wild ducks, snipe, and snch 
tractions upon laud and water. small fry till you become disgusted of 

With regard to poisonous snakes and j sport, 
insects during the Winter months, mos- j 
quitoes are not at all troublesome, and 

"souous snakes are rare. 



pois< 

MYAKKA. 

To give the country a tit!e indicating 
its characteristic features, we may quite 
safely assume that Myakka means Hunt- 
ers' Paradise, Deer's Home, Turkey 



PERPIDO BAY. 

Fish are so plenty and bite so fast in 
Perdido Bay, that one soiui gets tired 
catching them. The varieties consist of 
bream, black bass (^called trout in that 
section). The bay is reached by way of 
Pensacola, from which point a plea- 
sant trip can easily be made to the snaj - 
per banks by steam tug. To one who 



Roost, or— well, suit yourself— any term I never enjoyed this kind of sport, it is rare 
susrgostive of an abundance of game, and j fun, but soon becomes labor, fishing in 
the best possible place for a hunter to ninety feet of water with lead to carry 
drop iuto for a month's sport in Winter, your line to the bottom, then hauling a 
and you have it as well named as it is at twenty to thirty pound fish rapidly up 
present. We say " drop into" advised- [ to the surface, with au occasional jerk 
Ij, iox if there is any pleasure in getting ; taking the line aud peeling your hands, 
to it in any other way we confess to utter ' The fish are very abundant, and from 
ignorance of it. If you are interested to ' eighty to ninety red-snappers can be 



t^keu in a very short time. 

MIDDLE FLORIDA. 

Middle Florida is one of the finest 
countries in the world. All along her 
sea coast are beautiful bays aud inlets; 
through the country are fine rivers, beau- 
tiful lakes, and pearly brooks. She has 
grand and wonderful springs, wh<.>se med- 



know what aud where Myakka is, take 
any large map of Florida, and, finding 
Manatee county, the name will appear 
connected with lakes and a river enter- 
ing Charlotte's Harbor. The Floridiau 
gives to all the territory drained by a 
stream the name it bears, so in the pres- 
ent instance, lakes, river, and the adjoin- 
ing country, including a widely scattered 
settlement, are all known as " The My- icinal virtues are known in all lands. 



akka." With the lakes and river our 
story runs. The former lie southeast 
from the enterprising village of Manatee. 
on the Manatee Kiver, twcnty-sevtn 
miles from the wharf, where two fiue 
ocoan-goinsr steamers land the semi-weok- 



She has magnificent forests of pine, cy- 
press, aud hardwood timber, ornamented 
with the beautiful magnolia and other 
flowering trees and shrubs. Her lakes, 
rivers, bays, and inlets are full of excel- 
lent fi'-h. Her sea coast have an abun- 



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dance of oysters, fish, turtle, and sponges. 
Her forests abound in a great variety of 
game. Her gardens yield the finest 
vegetables, and have the most beautiful 
(lowers in bloom all the year. Her 
orchards bear the most delicious fruits 
and berries, and her vineyards the finest 
grapes that make the best of wine. Mid- 
dle Florida is bounded on the north^ by 
Georgia, on the east by the Suwannee 
River, on the south by the Gulf of Mex- 
ico, and on the west by the Apalachicola 
River. It is from one hundred and 
twenty to one hundred and forty miles in 
length, and from seventy to eighty miles 
in width. A peculiar feature in Middle 
Florida is the number of lakelets of clear 
pure water scattered all over the country, 
varying in size from half an acre to au 
acre or more in extent. They, as a gen- 
eral thing, are very deep, have no outlet, 
and contain au abundance of excellent 
fish. They seem to have been placed 
there for a wise purpose — to supply the 
wants of every family at their own doors, 
without hire or reward, with a splendid 
article of food. In all the countries along 
the Gulf of Mexico, and in nearly all the 
heavily timbered lands in the others, are 
to be found all kinds of game, such as 
bear, deer, wild turkeys, panthers, cata- 
mounts, wild cats, &c. Deer and turkey 
are plentiful. In all the lakes, rivers, 
and creeks are an abundance of the finest 
fish, such as trout, perch, jack or hake, 
catfish, blackfish, bream, &c. On the 
coast there is the finest of oysters, clams, 
turtle, and every variety of salt water 
fish. During the Winter, all the lakes, 
ponds, bays, inlets, rivers, kc, have an 
abundance of every variety of water 
fowl. Sportsmen should visit Middle 
Florida by all means and take a hunt 
and a fi^h down ou the coast. Troy, 
the county seat of Lafayette county, is 



on the Suwannee River, and is at present 
the head of steamboat navigation. It 
contains about fifty inhabitants. It is 
near one of the best regions for hunting 
in all Florida. New Port, on the St. 
Mark's River, six miles from the Gulf of 
Mexico, was once an important commer- 
cial place. Above the town is one of 
the finest sulphur springs in the State, 
wliose waters contaui great curative 
powers, and have performed almost mir- 
aculous cures. Before the war, invalids 
from nearly all parts of the Union re- 
sorted there to drink of and bathe iu the 
health-giving waters of the springs. 
Across the St. Mark's Eiver, opposite, 
are hunting grounds not excelled in the 
South iu all probability. Bear, deer, 
turkeys, &c., are iu the greatest abund- 
ance. It is the paradise for sportsmen. 

ROUTES OF FLORIDA TRAVEL. 

The southwest coast of Florida pre- 
sents an attractive field for sportsmen* 
Steamships leave Boston and Baltimore 
regularly for Savannah. Florida can 
also be reached by any of the various 
rail routes, and fares can be ascertained 
by inquiring at any of the principal ofii- 
ces. Steamships leave New York for 
Charleston three times weekly, and from 
Philadelphia every Saturday, connecting 
with railroad, and with the staunch, sea- 
worthy, comfortable, and ably oflicered 
sea-going steamers. Steamships leave 
New York for Savannah three times 
weekly, connecting with the steamers at 
Savannah. If travelers prefer it, they 
can reach Jacksonville from Savannah 
by the Atlantic & Gulf Raih-oad. Cou- 
pons of excursion tickets will be received 
by the company. Travelers will find this 
road supplied with excellent Pullman 
cars. Gelpcke's line from New Y'ork to 
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j2:oing- steamships. The rates of fare can 
be obtained by inquiry at any of the com- 
panies offices. Jacksonville or Feruan- 
dina reached, the sportsman can take 
railroad daily, except Sunday, for Cedar 
Keys. If Homosassa is the objective 
point, a boat can be hired at from eight 
to ten dollars for the trip, or if disposed 
the intending tourist or sportsman can 
communicate with Alfred E. Jones, at 
Homosassa, and if timely notice is given, 
Mr. Jones would meet his guests at Ce- 
dar Keys and land them at his attractive 
home, free of charge. The only diffi- 
culty attending this arrangement is the 
fact, that there is but one mail per week 
to Homosassa, arriving on Mondays. 
Homosassa can be reached by another 
route: Steamer from Jacksonville to Sil- 
ver Spring, a natural curiosity that 
should be visited by every tourist. Hack 
from Silver Spring to Ocala, fare $1. 
From Ocala to Homosassa, a distance of 
thirty six miles, over a good road, in 
a comfortable vehicle, $10 to $12, de- 
pendent upon number of passengers. 
Board at Homosassa, from $8 to $12 
per week; accommodations good, table 
excellent; fishing and shooting superior; 
and the rooms large and airy; verandahs 
spacious; fresh milk and butter; oysters 
and oranges ad libitum. Bronson is a 
point on the Feruandina k Cedar Keys 
Railroad, thirty miles from the latter 
place. The ponds in the neighborhood 
afford fine bass fishing ; quail and duck 
are plenty, and the sportsman may suc- 
ceed in shooting turkeys or deer. Ac- 
commodations, hotels, $ 15 ; private 
boarding houses, $12; board $1 per day 
or $5 per week. For information inter- 
view Mr. G. Levet. With the excep- 
tion of climate, bathing and fishing. 
Cedar Keys presents but few attractions 
for tourists or sportsmen. The hotel ac- 



commodations can not be recommended 
as A 1. Sportsmen arriving at Cedar 
Keys and requiring information need but 
call upon Mr. Gore, editor of the local 
paper, or on Willard k Roux. The 
steamer Valley City,' commanded by that 
jolly sea dog, Capt. McKay, leaves Ce- 
dar Keys every Friday for Tampa, 
Manatee, Punta Rassa, and Key West. 
Parties desirous of ascending the Caloo- 
sahatchie River, or of spending a few 
weeks on the coast, could take steamer 
to Punta Rassa, and from there ascend 
the river or explore Charlotte Harbor. 
For 'gator shooting, ascend the Caloosa- 
hatchie to the upper islands, six miles 
above Fort Myers, and thirty-one from 
Punta Rassa. Above the islands the dis- 
ciple of Old Izaak can put in all his 
spare time in landing cavilli ranging 
from five to fifteen pounds. For fight 
i and pluck this fish can be recommended. 
They take the spoon or spinner without 
hesitation, and we doubt if a salmon fly 
would be objectionable. For hunting and 
sea fishing, Tauibel, La Costa, or Gas- 
parilla Islands are suggested. For a 
camping place for the invalid who re- 
quires a bracing sea breeze, an equable 
temperature, salt bathinsr, and life-giving 
sunbeams, camp on the northern end of 
Gasparilla Island. The island is two 
miles in length, and is well stocked with 
deer. At the entrance, or Little Gas- 
parilla Pass, the fishing is unequalled. 
On the opposite flats beach birds are 
more than abundant. The mainland is 
distant about three hundred yards. In 
the centre of the island a lagoon with 
excellent water will be found; but by 
digging a hole in the sand (and putting 
an empty barrel in it) from twenty to 
eighty yards from the bay beach, fair 
drinkiug water can be obtained at low 
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a small sloop or schooner could be chart- 
ered to transport boat, provisions, and 
camp equipage to camping ground. A 
few weeks spent on one of the islands in 
Charlotte Harbor, would do much to re- 
store the invalid. Frosts are unknown; 
northeasters and northwesters lose their 
injurious influences before reaching these 
favored spots. A weekly mail is receiv- 
ed at Punta Rassa, and supplies could 
be obtained through Capt. McKay, of 
the Valley City. Parties are advised to 
camp on the end of the island, for, by 
pursuing this course, bushes and grass 
would be distant some hundred yards, 
and in consequence, mosquitoes would 
not prove troublesome. Intending vis- 
itors should secure coast survey charts of 
thi-? harbor, two in number, obtainable 
at any nautical store. Returning north- 
ward, sportsmen could run the coastline 
from Little Gasparilla Inlet to Sarasota 
Inlet, a distance of thirty-eight miles. 
But unless they are familiar with sailing, 
and know how to pick their way between 
bars, and keep clear of breakers, they 
had better take themselves and boat on 
board the Vallej City and land at Tampa. 
At Tampa they would find good accom- 
modations by calling upon Lieut. Wall. 
Leaving Tampa Bay, with its islands 
stocked with deer, and every inlet fur- 
nishing superior fishing, they would reach 
Clear Water Harbor by the Indian Pass. 
From Clear Water Harbor they could 
run along within two or three miles of 
the mainland in from three to five feet of 
water. A barrier reef exists from five 
to seven miles from the main land, and 
owing to the shallowness of the water, 
and the grassy nature of the bottom, the 
water is smooth. Bayous, coves, and 
small bays, will be found in numbers 
along the coast line, and a good harbor 
can always be made. The voyageurs 



could enter and examine en route the at- 
tractive and bcautiftl springs at the heads 
of the Wiccawatche, Cheseowillshi, Ho- 
mosassa, and Crystal rivers. During 
the Winter months, the gulf is usually as 
calm as a mill pond, and can be safely 
navigated with a seventeen- foot White- 
hall boat; but for the purpose of navi- 
gating shoal water and carrying plunder, 
a batteau is recommended, such as is 
used on the Delaware Pv.iver. If decked 
over and supplied with a centre-board 
and sail, such a craft would be found 
admirably adapted to the navigation of 
the southwest. Arrangements could be 
made for the cheap transportation of such 
a boat from New York to Cedar Keys 
by the New York and Fernandina line 
of steamers. But if money is no object 
sportsmen should secure a boat with 
sailing master at Cedar Keys, Tampa, 
or Manatee, at an expense of from $4 to 
$5 per day. But many of the boatmen 
along the coast have acquired a weak- 
ness, and if peace is desired the whisky 
bottle must be kept under lock and key. 

IN THE LONE STAR STATE. 

THE "promised LAND" NORTHERN TEXAS. 

All the northen part of Texas, embrac- 
ing both the Cross Timbers as a centre, 
and flanked by extensive priaries on the 
east and west, and abounding in game 
(in their places and season), hold out 
their peculiar charms, and invite the 
sportsman to the tented field. When 
acorns and other mast are plenty, and 
have fallen, then, take to the open woods. 
You will there find deer, ducks, geese, 
and turkeys abundant, quail and rabbits 
plenty, antelope, grouse, and squirrels 
medium, and bear occasionally, to say 
nothing of prairie wolves, foxes, coons, 
possums, &c., not generally noticed. Oc- 
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perfect mouths for sport, and January 
and February not bad, but having a 
few days, at intervals, of rather cold 
weather — that is, a few inches of snow 
and ice, with cold, northerly winds — 
thus constituting what is so well known 
in Texas as " a norther." These remarks 
apply to Northern Texas in Winter, while 
along the Gulf, or southeru coast, these 
same Winter months have the mild cli- 
mate of New York in September. Con- 
nected with the railroad running south 
from Denuison, near the north line of the 
State, are stages which convey persons 
at once to almost any part of the State 
desired. For central cities, in which to 
spend the Winter for health, as well as 
for sporting, San Antonio stands first, 
Austin, the capitol of the State, second. 
These places cannot very well be excell- 
ed, everything considered. Persons with 
weak lungs will find relief in Central and 
Western Texas, if anywhere. She will 
prove more than the Italy or the Egypt 
to the United States. Happy will they 
be who early go down to the '• promised 
laud," and partake of varied offerings. 

SAN ANTONIO WACO. 

Between San Antonio and Waco is 
the sportman's paradise. Bob White's 
whistle is heard everywhere, and they are 
always in sight along the beaten roads 
feeding on cereals. Around New Braum- 
fells, are to be found deer and turkeys. 
The Comal River abounds in fish. At 
San Marcus, the prairies are alive with 
quail. At Georgetown deer and turkeys 
are plentiful a few miles from town. 
From Belton to Waco is as fine a quail 
country as a sportsman ever passed 
through, with deer and turkeys in abun- 
dance, with a sprinkling of wild cats, 
and an occasional leopard cat. Hill 
county adjoining is alive with deer and 



turkeys, sparsely settled, and the best I 
grounds within forty miles of Waco. j 

I 

1 

TURKEY LAND. , 

As a game region, there probably can ; 
be no place found equal in all respects ! 
to Western Texas, with the Almo City 
as a base of operations. Mr. H. Lyman 
Bingham gives a short account of a i 
fine twelve days' hunt he, with a party j 
of others, had there during the Fall of I 
1878. Fully supplied with all necessary 
equipments for twelve days in the nest, j 
the party started from Alamo City on 
Tuesday, the 12th of November, 1878, 
their destination being the neighborhood 
of Frio City They brought up about ' 
fifteen miles beyond that place, having | 
bagged considerable game along the 1 
way — such as turkeys, quail, and ducks. 
They finally pitched tents on the Yo-le- 
digo, fifteen miles from Frio City. There , 
all hands settled down and went to work | 
for deer, and spent two or three days, 
but found them rather scarce, only I 
killing seven. 'Finally they determined ' 
on a change of base, and began to re- | 
trace their stej^s, coming ten miles north- 
east of Frio City, and camping on the ' 
Saco, where attention was paid to the 
turkey. " I can safely assert," he says, ; 
" that the Saco is one of if not the most i 
favored places for turkey in Texas. It 
is a small stream, and runs only a little 
during the year, but it has water holes 
all along it the entire twelve months, : 
and it is timbered, as all such streams 
are in Western Texas, with scattered , 
clumps of live oak and other trees. The | 
clumps of trees, especially where you ^ 
find a water hole, are favorite spots for | 
the turkey to roost in, and here is where , 
the hunters go to shoot them. I am j 
well aware that many consider this a ' 
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but let them come to Western Texas, 
and I will stake my reputation as a 
sportsman they will do as we do. The 
idea of calling a turkey up to shoot him 
down with a rifle! Why, you here see 
them at all times. But we only shoot 
lor camp use, until the night before we 
start for home; then we have fresh 
turkeys. I will assert that I saw in one 
roost, the night before we left, in live 
hundred yards distance, over a thousand 
turkeys. I killed at least twenty-five 
turkeys in thirty minutes. Our whole 
kill of turkey on the tramp was over a 
hundred, 'seven deer, innumerable quail, 
both the common and blue topknot, one 
wild boar, four avalcnas, or wild musk 
hog. This section is the wildest I have 
ever seen in Texas. Those who wish to 
wliile away an most agreeable time in 
the most congenial climate, and where 
the best variety of sport can be had, can 
do no better than to make their head- 
quarters in the Alamo City, and I shall 
be only too happy to give them such 
directions as will afford them the great- 
est amount of pleasure." 

CAMP BUNT BY LAZY ALIO. 

On the 11th day of "November, 1818, 
1 left home on a camp hunt to the upper 
Red River and Wichita county, to be 
gone thirty or forty days. My company 
consisted of three good hunters besides 
myself, a camp keeper, and a freedman 
to take charge of the cooking depart- 
ment, and three two-horse wagons with 
good teams. In the wagons were com- 
missary stores sufficient for the trip, with 
tents, guns, ammunition and all other 
reciuisites; with good teams and two 
men to the wagon, we had no trouble 
in making from twenty-five to thirty 
miles per day. Each hunter carried a 
a rifle and a shot gun. The rifles were 



Sharp's and Winchester's; the shot guns, 
two muzzle and two heavy breech-load- 
ers. For large game, such as buffalo antl 
bear, I consider Sharp's the best gun ; for 
smaller game, such as deer, anteloj)e, 
and turkeys, I give the preference to the 
Winchester ■^^, as I think they shoot 
somewhat more accurate, though not with 
the penetration of the Sharp's -^^ gun. 
A Winchester thirty-four inch octagon 
barrel, with the very latest improvements 
and properly sighted for the prairies, I 
consider a killing gun. At one hundred 
and twenty-five miles from home we 
passed the last settlements of the white 
man to the Northwest; continuing our 
course across the prairies and small 
streams, we struck the Wichita near the 
old buffalo crossing. As we had not 
gone out for buffalo, but were after 
deer, antelope, bear, and turkeys, with 
such small game as we could pick up 
by the wayside, we concluded to make 
our camp. Two of us had hunted over 
the same country one year ago, and 
knew the good places for game and 
camping grounds, which gave us a great 
advantage over other hunting parties 
that had never visited that region before. 
We were in camp and hunted fifteen 
days, during which time we took one 
hundred and twenty-six venison hams 
and sirloin saddles, with a good number 
of antelope, a Mexican lion or cougar, 
and many turkeys, geese, ducks, and 
chickens, of which we kept no count. 
The deer were unusually fat, there be- 
ing a good red haw mast on the creeks; 
the turkeyes, as a general thing, were 
poor; the light moon in November is 
running time for deer in Texas, therefore 
the old bucks wei-e out in force, for of 
the number killed twenty were old bucks ; 
the haras and saddles were all saved 
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days and theu hung on a scaffold with 
smoke under them to cure them prepar- 
atory to starting for home. Of the 
forequarters we used what we wanted 
for camp meat, fed our five dogs what 
they could eat, and theu gave away 
two fair wagon loads of them to some 
hunters from our section of country who 
were new hands at the business and did 
not know how to capture game as we did. 
We were within two days travel of the 
buffalo, but did not want any. Buffalo 
hunting is tame when compared with 
antelope hunting. There is more honor 
and glory in getting one antelope from 
the herd on the high prairies than kill- 
ing a dozen old buffalo bulls from behind 

a musquit bush. Chicago Field. 

AFTER A CHRISTMAS DINNER. 

" Yeuator " gives a glowing account 
of a party that left Fort Griffin, Texas, 
to hunt game for a Christmas dinner. 
The party left camp (Fort Griffin) on 
the morning of the 15th of December, 
and consisted of the commanding and 
three other officers, together with the 
necessary transportation and rations for 
ten days, Avith the intention of first visit- 
ing a place called Mountain Pass, about 
eighty miles distant, near which bear 
had been reported abundant, and after- 
ward to return slowly home, stopping 
on the way to shoot a sufficient number 
of wild turkeys to furnish a Christmas 
dinner for the fort. The party did not 
expect to see much game before they 
reached Mountain Pass, and therefore 
traveled all day along the road, aiid did 
not stop at all for the purpose of hunt- 
ing, killing only enough as they went to 
supply the table. 

Many buffaloes were passed, feeding 
in sight, and many carcasses seen from 
which the hide had been stripped and 



the rest of the animal left to waste, 
killed by the hunters who infest this 
region alone for that detestable purpose. 
Ou the afternoon of the third day out 
the hunters arrived at and passed through 
Mountain Pass, and pitched their camp 
upon Rock Creek, in a most delightful 
spot, abounding in pure and sweet water 
(which is considered a great luxury in a 
country where there are no wells) and 
excellent grass for the animals. At this 
point the party expected to find bear, 
but whether Mr. Bruin had received 
notice of their intended coming, or from 
the want of proper dogs, they failed to 
find him, although numerous signs were 
visible. Remaining in this camp until the 
19th instant, the party started to return 
to the grand object of the hunt — turkeys. 
After leaving the Pass, they retraced 
their steps about twenty-five miles to 
Ellen Creek. Here many tu-keys and 
some deer w^ere found, although so much 
shooting made the latter to wild to be 
easily killed. Near where the camp was 
pitched was a small open wood of black- 
jack or scrub oak, with an abundant 
crop of mast, and upon this the turkeys 
fed. In this wood sixteen turkeys were 
killed. The party remained in the 
neighborhood one day, and then moved 
over to the clear fork of the Brazos 
River, and within thirty miles of Fort 
Griffin, where they expected to kill the 
greatest number of their turkeys, as 
they were very plentiful; and the first 
day's hunt, notwithstanding a slight 
rain, resulted in the death of thirty; but, 
uufortnnately, the rain increased, and 
carriers having arrived with intelligence 
which required the commanding officer 
to return to the post, the party re- 
luctantly gave up the remainder of the 
hunt and struck tents for home. Had 
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hours longer they would have undoubt- 
edly secured at least fifty more turkeys. 



FISH AND GROUSE REGION. 

Solon is located in Somerset county, 
Maine, and they have some good hunt- 
ing and fisliing up there. The best way 
to go is by way of the North Anson by 
Railroad. There is a daily stage to 
Solon, and there is some talk of putting 
oil a daily stage from Solon to the Forks, 
thirty-one miles; from the Forks to 
Moose River is thirty miles. In the 
vicinity of Solon are some fine trout 
brooks, and five miles from the village 
is a good trout pond. One mile from 
the village, at Carritunk Falls, on Ken- 
nebec River, magnificent trout are 
caught. Some caught there in the Sum- 
mer of 1877, tipped four pounds. In 
Carrying-place Town there are three 
good ponds. In the first pond are trout 
that weigli about half a pound. A Mr. 
Ellis has a camp there and keeps a kind 
of a hotel, where he has a good deal of 
company in the Summer. This pond is 
three miles from the river, and four miles 
from J. Carney's Hotel in Moscow. In 
Carritunk is Pleasant Pond, where the 
fishing has to be done at night. The 
water is so clear you can see the bottom 
of the pond, where there is fifty or sixty 
feet of wf.ter, as plain as if there were 
not more than five or six feet. It is 
fringy around the pond and very cold 
water. From The Forks, five miles, is 
Moxie Pond, with very good fishing. 
There is a road to the Moxie. Some 
very good trout streams are in the vicin- 
ity of The Forks, and from there to 
Moose River one will find partridges. 
A Mr. Gordon says he shot seventeen 
partridges from The Forks to Parlin 
Pond, fourteen miles, and shot them all 
from a wagon in and on the side of the 



road. Parlin Pond is one of the best 
places to go fishing, as it is right by a 
hotel and on the stage road. A stranger 
can go to Parlin Pond and get all the 
fish he wants in the Summer and Fall, 
and he does not need a guide. It is al- 
so a good place for partridge. Fifteen 
miles from Parlin Pond is River Settle- 
ment; two hotels. At this point there is 
fishing enough. Six miles southwest is 
Long Pond; east from Moose River is 
Wood Pond, with three wood ponds. 
South is Attian Pond. East from Attian 
Pond is Holeb Pond. Moose River 
flows through all these ponds and it is 
good boatilg from the Attian Pond to 
Holeb Pond. It is twelve or fourteen 
miles by river, with a carry about half 
a mile. Few sportsmen visit this section. 
The best time for fishing is July, the 
flies are all gone then. 



FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY. 

There are good shooting and fishing 
grounds around Frankfort, Kentucky. 
In the Fall they have a very fair show 
of quail. Snipe and plover are not 
abundant, except in a few localities, 
and woodcock are rare. In the moun- 
tains a tramp after the pheasants (ruffed 
grouse) is nearly always successful. 
Turkeys, geese and ducks usually appear 
in the tributaries of the main rivers, and 
occasionally the blue grass hunters go 
after them, but such hunts are not com- 
mon. The mallard and blue wing duck 
abounds in the Winter on all the streams 
and ponds. The Kentucky River winds 
through the cliffs at Frankfort, and any 
day, when the water is in condition, its 
banks are clouded with dark gentry 
for five miles above and below the city. 
They are not always very particular 
about the kind of fish they catch, it is 
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out with all the superior accoutremeuts 
of a true iishcrman. Thu river affords 
a small black bass, seldom weighing 
over a pound, a few salmon, or pickerel, 
and a great many silver perch. The 
common sluggish fish of all kinds are 
abundant. Up near the head of the 
river, abreast the "Three Forks," the 
bass are larger and the pike abundant. 
Ju nearly all the tributaries the hard 
mouth fish are to be found in greater 
numbers and better size. In Ked River, 
a short stream which reaches the Ken- 
tucky about fifty miles above Frankfort, 
any quantity of fine pike are to be found. 
Several have been taken weighing from 
sixteen to eighteen pounds, and some 
few exceeding twenty-five pounds. They 
require very strong tackle — a No. 4 or 
5 reel, a heavy line and long wire snood- 
itig. They are taken with a bait locally 
known as the sucker, a small striped 
fish from eight to ten inches long. The 
bass, or black perch, in the upper 
streams take the same bait. Salmon (?) 
weighing from five to fifteen pounds are 
also taken there. The best stream for reg- 
ular fishing anywhere in the State is Elk- 
horn, a small tributary of the Kentucky, 
entering it a few miles below Frankfort. 
For many years it has been a favorite 
resort for the most accomplished rods- 
men. It has but one fish — the black 
perch, or bass, as it is commonly called 
— and that in great abundance. The 
stream is shallow and narrow, seldom 
exceeding three or four feet in depth, 
very rocky and hill-bound everywhere. 
It requires constant wading and faithful 
work, but the true fisherman is always 
handsomely rewarded The fish range 
from half a pound to five pounds, a large 
number weighing two and three pounds 
being taken every season. It is a little 
singular that, though hundreds of per- 



sons visit this stream every day during 
the season, no abatement of the sport is 
noticeable. 



GAME COVERTS OF NEVADA. 

The State of Nevada is blessed with 
but little shooting grounds, but there 
are some, and when found they are ex- 
celled by none. Elk county, in the 
eastern part of the State, affords a 
better field for the sportsman than any 
in the State, There are other parts 
which yield as great a quantity, but 
not variety. For instance, the sink of 
the Humboldt River, which is a shallow 
lake of considerable extent, is in Decem- 
ber covered with myriads of water-fowl 
of all kinds, including ducks of many vari- 
eties, honkers, brant, swans, and pelican, 
but that is all. Away from the shore 
everything is parched and dry, and for 
miles the eye encounters naught but 
sandy hills, alkali plains, and a few 
stunted sage brush, but as you go east- 
ward, following the line of the Central 
Pacific Railroad, the country gradually 
assumes a more cheering aspect, and up- 
on arriving at Elko, a pretty little burg 
and an eating station, you may stop 
with the assurance that any of the 
citizens can direct you to good shooting 
grounds. From there east to Deeth 
Station on the river can be found ducks, 
snipe, prairie chickens "(or sharp-tailed 
grouse), sage hens, &c. At Deeth 
Station the river leaves the railroad, 
and away northward, after diverging 
from the road some thirty miles, until 
you reach the Grouse Creek Moun- 
tains, is a hunter's paradise. All is 
solitude; no habitation for miles now; 
no hunters have been there; the crack 
of the gun is like angels' visits — few and 
far between — and the result, abundance 
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Avard the bead is an insignificant stream,' 
merely a liltle brook, but abounding in 
trout; they will take the fly as fast as 
thrown in; in fact, they are so plenty, 
that the sport becomes tame. Parties 
who desire splendid shooting can do no 
better than to give this locality a trial. 
They are advised to procure their teams 
at Elko and a full camping outfit and 
drive to Deeth Station, and from there 
go north following Mary's River. After 
you get up it some teu or fifteen miles, 
you will be surprised to see so much 
game and of so many varieties. You 
cannot step up to a pool without ducks 
flying up. Hardly a hundred yards of 
ground is passed over without chicken 
are flushed. 

DIVERSIFIED GAME FIELDS. 

NEVER ENDING SPORTING REGION. 

Within the limits of the State of Vir- 
ginia can be found every variety and 
species of game. Beginning at New 
Year, the sportsman can shoot steadily 
all the year round. All the Winter the 
Potomac, Rappahannock, and the St. 
James rivers and their tributaries, fur- 
nish the wild fowl, the canvas back, 
mallard, teal, and the brant, the gamest 
bird in the world ; also, wild geese and 
swans, and then is the time for fox hunt- 
ing. In the Spring, on the sea coast, 
bay birds and snipe can be killed by the 
thousand, besides splendid fishing for 
rock perch and chub. In Summer, cur- 
lew, willet, and woodcock are in un- 
counted numbers. By the middle of Au. 
gust deer are in season, affording splen- 
did sport; in September the marshes are 
filled with sora, ortolan, and reed-bird, 
and single guns can count their day's 
sport by dozens. At this time the an- 
gler is in his glory with trout and black 
bass, that rise readily to the fly in all 



the mountain streams, especially in the 
Shenandoah River. In October, par- 
tridge shooting commences; also, phea- 
sants and squirrels, not to mention hares, 
which swarm in the old sedge fields. 

MOB JACK BAY AND SURROUNDINGS. 

Mob Jack Bay, between the York 
and Rappahannock rivers, with the Sev- 
ern, Ware, North, and East, with their 
numberless creeks and coves emptying 
into it, is a paradise for those who love 
the gun and the rod. Oysters are found 
at every man's door; crabs in endless 
profusion, waterfowl of every variety, 
from the swan and brant to the Summer 
or woodduck; and as for fish, their name 
is legion, including pompano and bonito. 
Sheepshead and hog-fish are so common 
as hardly to deserve mention, to say 
nothing of greenfish, spot, and the bay 
mackerel. Gray foxes abound, and on 
York River, some few red foxes afford 
good sport. Wild turkeys are numerous, 
and quail plentiful. Deer are virtually 
extinct in this section. So it will be seen 
that with rivers full of fish, swamps 
abounding in wild fowl and game birds, 
and .woods where the flesh do most 
abound, that a sportsman can find his 
Arcadia in Virginia. 

Strangers meditating a visit to the 
Old Dominion to hunt and fish, are ad- 
vised to get a letter of introduction to 
some well known Virginian, who will in- 
troduce them around and save much trou- 
ble. For deer hunting, write to Capt, 
Wm. N. Blow, Littleton, Sussex county, 
Virginia. ( See Nottoway Region, page 
72). Those desiring to hunt quail near 
Washington City, will find good board 
and plenty of birds in Culpepper county, 
along the Virginia Midland Road, about 
three hours' ride from the National Cap- 
ital. Write to George Meyers, Jeffer- 



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soutou, Culpepper county, Ya., who will 
tell you all you want to know, and who 
will make any parly who stays with him 
comfortable and happy. Tourists who 
wish to "do " the Dismal Swamp and 
fish in Lake Drummoud, write to Bob 
Rogers, Suffolk, Ta. Every lover of the 
strange, the weird, and the beautiful iu 
>'ature, should not fail to make the trip. 
There is splendid hunting also in the 
vicinity of the Great Dismal Swamp. 
The last of September or the 1st of 
October is the best time. 

MOCNTAIX REGION" OF THE TWO VIRGINIAS 

The best brook trout fishing to be had 
in Virginia or in West A'irginia is all 
that territory which lies between the 
Baltimore »lt Oliio Railroad, and the 
Chesapeake «.t Ohio Railroad, bounded 
on the east by the Shenandoah Valley, 
and the west by the Cheat Mountains. 
In this quadrilateral are the headwaters 
of the South Fork of the Potomac, of the 
^"orth Fork of the James, and of the 
Kanawha; and as you get deeper into 
the AUoghanies, to the very fountain- 
heads of these streams, there you find 
the fish most abundant and of the finest 
size. By counties, we would designate 
the best as Augusta, Bath, and High- 
lands, iu Virginia ; Pocahontas, Pendle- 
ton, Braxton, and Randolph, in West 
Virginia. The most desirable route to 
any one of these counties is through 
Staunton, on the Chespeake & Ohio 
Railroad, and about the most pleasant 
trip a man could take in the Summer. 
Hire a one or two-horse wagon, which 
can be got for $2.50 per day, one or two 
servants, who can be had cheap, and 
make the tour through these counties on 
foot, camping every day on a fresh trout 
stream, and resting at night iu the purest 
atmosphere on the globe ; or, if one 



would not desire to make such a long 
trip, there are two streams within twenty- 
five miles of Staunton, that have plenty 
of fish in them, from four to thirteen in- 
ches, with houses at which small parties 
can be accommodated, but in a very 
plain way. They are rough mountain- 
eers, but hospitable, and charge very 
moderately. About four miles from the 
best of these streams, is a watering- 
place known as " Stribling Springs," that 
ha.s a very remarkable combination of 
mineral waters upon it — alum, sulphur, 
and chalybeate. Here, a person desiring 
to be more at ease, and to fish only when 
the spirit moved him, could find com- 
fortable quartei-s, good board, pleasant 
company, without any fuss or fashion to 
annoy him, at a very moderate price 
(^$30 per month), and as pretty scenery 
as can be found anywhere. Combining 
the quail with the ruffed grouse shooting 
in this section, it is hard lo find a region 
that will afford more satisfactory sport. 
Where most of the ruffed grouse are 
found, there also deer are plenty. Ork- 
ney Springs, Shenandoah county, at the 
base of North Mountain, is twenty-three 
hundred feet above tide water. The 
surrounding country is filled with game 
of every description. Far up the moun- 
tain-side, where he is seldom disturbed 
by the intrusions of man, dwells the 
black bear, living upon berries, acorns, 
and such other food as he can find ; but 
sometinifs he boldly descends from his 
mountain fastness to raid a neighboring 
corn-field or turnip patch, or, perchance, 
the farmers' pig-sty may receive a call 
from bruin, who, never averse to a dainty 
meal, helps himself to the first little 
porker he meets. One of the character- 
istics of the black bear is his delight in a 
cold water bath, and if a pool does not 
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answer his purpose. The principal sprnig 
at Orkney, the mineral ingredients of 
which are sulphates of magnesia and 
iron, is known by the enphonius name of 
" Bear Wallow," because it was herein 
that they rolled and weltered ere the en- 
croachments of man drove them from the 
valleys far up the surrounding mouataiu- 
sides. Here too, deer range over the 
forest-covered mountains in goodly num- 
bers. The wild turkey finds plenty of 
cover wherein to roam unmolested. That 
game and delicious bird, the autocratic 
rulVed grouse, the wildest but most de- 
sirable of all our game birds, struts over 
his rough haunts beneath cover almost 
impenetrable to man, but frequently 
leaves his secluded abode for some grain- 
field in the vicinity, wherein he is often 
flushed and killed. All over the moun- 
tains, the barking of the timid gray squir- 
rel may be heard, and from the valleys 
below, comes the piping of Bob White, 
in the dreamy Autumn days. 

VIRGIXIA SPRINGS. 

The Virginia Springs are but twenty- 
four hours distant from New York, the 
last twelve of which is through a most 
beautiful region, passing by the Shenan- 
doah Valley, and the fine mountain 
scenery of West Virginia. By taking 
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the 
White Sulphur, Sweet, Red Sweet, Bath- 
Warm, Rockbridge, or Avhatever point 
the tourist might wish to be transported 
to, can be easily reached. The traveler, 
by leaving the train at Alleghany Sta- 
tion, has only nine miles staging to the 
old Sweet Springs, and to the White 
Sulphur none at all, the cars stopping 
within a stone's throw of the hotels. The 
White Sulphur Springs are the most fre- 
quented, but the old Sweet is generally 
preferred to any of the other resorts ou 



account of its being less crowded, and of 
its unequalled location. Situated in 
Monroe county, in a beautiful valley, it 
is surrounded by charming highlaiul 
.scenery, and the temperature is delight- 
ful, even in July and August. The hotel 
and cottages accommodate seven or 
eight hundred guests, and is very well 
kept. Game of all kinds, fish, flesh, and 
fowl, is so abundant as not to be appre- 
ciated. Woodcock frequently are shot 
within five hundred feet of the house, and 
a mile or two back in the hills is one of 
the finest drives for deer to be imagined 
by the most ardent sportsman; while for 
the disciples of Izaak Walton, ten min- 
utes' walk of the house is a troiit brook, 
where the capture of two to three pound- 
ers is an every day occurrence. Every 
day they hf.ve speckled trout served up 
on the table, which, with tender, juicy 
venison steaks, and side dishes of wood- 
cock, pheasants, &c., form a mcmt un- 
surpassed anywhere. The deer are actu- 
ally so plentiful that they are often met 
with on the wayside, and seen crossing 
the roads ahead of passing teams. Alto- 
gether it would be difficult to find a re- 
gion within a day's journey of New York 
that offers such inducements to the hunt- 
er, whether of fur, fin, or feather. 

GENTLY WOOING. 

Hear how gently Mr. J. M. McCann 
WOO the sportsmen to the "happy hunt- 
ing lands" around Bridgeport, West Vir- 
ginia: "Though strangely overlooked by 
sportsmen, this is one of the finest hunt- 
ing grounds on the continent. All the 
land is full of grouse and quail, and the 
mountains abound in deer and bear. The 
pigs are fattened on trout in the wild, 
remote districts, where game laws are ini- 
heard or unknown. The Valley of Can- 
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ing iu the mountain cabins is free of cost, 
and the wild, b?nntiful land is the hunt- 
er's paradise — not a house within thirty 
miles, save, perhaps, the hut or cave of 
the moonshiner. The valley is the bed 
of an ancient lake, level and beautiful as 
any Texas prairie; the Blackwater winds 
slowly among the tangled laurel, and the 
puma, the bear, and the deer, are seldom 
alarmed by the voice of a hunters gun. 
The scenery is grand and beautiful among 
those mountains. The castellated rocks 
are like the ruins of old cathedrals, and 
the moss is deep and soft as Persian car- 
pets. Flocks of wild turkeys feed under 
ihe " greenwood tree," a mass of emer- 
ald and gold. Sometimes in Autumn, 
the white umbrella of the painter is seen 
1)7 the waterfall, or among the hollies in 
the mountain gorge; but the wild duck 
dreams on the river, and the deer among 
the laurel, and the hunter comes not from 
the far North land." 

THE NOTTOWAY REGION. 

The Nottoway region, lying on the 
Nottoway River — commencing at Stony 
Creek Station, on the Weldon Railroad, 
and continuing on to Southampton coun- 
ty, is without doubt the wildest and 
most desolate section of Virginia. The 
two counties — Sussex and Southampton 
— beat anything in the way of desolation 
ever witnessed. Of course, in such a 
sparsely settled and rarely hunted coun- 
try, there must be game, and actual ob- 
servation has demonstrated the fact, 
that there is more game in this section 
than any part of the Middle States. The 
negroes have pretty nearly thinned out 
all the rabbits and squirrels; but as they 
do not keep a pack of hounds, the deer 
are safe from their driving and hunting. 
Neither do thev keep pointers or setters, 



and (juail roam at will undisturbed by 
the report of a single gun. To sportsmen 
with good dogs, a breech-loader, and 
moderate skill, it would be difficult to 
enumerate the number of birds that 
could be killed. But the great sport of 
this section is deer hunting, and as 
strange as the assertion may seem, it is 
nevertheless a true one, that there are 
more deer now than ever before. There 
are many theories to account for this, 
but the two principal, and certainly the 
true ones, are that the farmers are too 
poor to keep a pack of hounds; nor have 
they time to hunt them, and then again 
two-thirds of the cultivated lands have 
since the war and the emancipation of 
the slaves been turned out to run wild, 
for with their limited means and impov- 
erished condition under a new regime, 
the farmers have had to concentrate 
their labor on a limited area, and the 
land left uncultivated has speedily grown 
up in pine thickets that are impassable, 
and in these safe retreats the deer breed 
and bring forth their young in undis- 
turbed security. The country fairly 
swarms with them. The owner of Tower 
Hill is Capt. Blow, and he is the only 
one around there that has a pack of 
hounds. The captain used to be an in- 
veterate sportsman in days gone by, but 
now he hunts only when out of meat, 
and generally kills between twenty-five 
and thirty every season; his porch is cov- 
ered with scores of antlers, the fruits of 
his prowess of the chase. When he puts 
his hounds out he is as certain to start a 
deer as he is to jump a jack rabbit. The 
only method practiced in this section is 
driving the deer with hounds, and as they 
either cross the road or river at certain 
points, the chances are always in your 
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Fox chasing is the sport of this part 
of the world. About Christmas there is 
a grand meet, and the farmers rendez- 
vous at some mansion and bring their 
hounds, and the whole of the holidays 
are generally spent in this most exhila- 
rating sport; it requires the hunter to be 
well monnted. Capt. Blow has a fine 
pack of hounds. The gray fox is the 
most common kind, and they have so in- 
creased that they have nearly destroyed 
the rabbits. In the Nottoway River 
there is an abundance of beaver and 
otter, and there have been no profes- 
sional trappers in the vicinity for a long 
time. There is a fine opening for such 
a class. This section is the paradise of 
a sportsman who is willing to rough it. 
Capt. William Blow, whose postoffice 
address is Littleton, Sussex county, Ya., 
will cheerfully answer all inquiries. He 
has lived in Sussex county all his life, and 
what he says can be accepted as the 
frozen truth. The Captain is a genial 
gentleman,- a true sportsman, and a gal- 
lant soldier, being a graduate of West 
Point, and he can probably be induced 
to take as boarders a few gentleman 
sportsmen, who either want quail shoot- 
ing, deer hunting, or fox chasing. The 
route there is by Petersburg to Stony 
Creek Station, on the Petersburg & 
Weldon Railroad, from there twenty 
miles by private conveyance. 

JEFFERSONTON, VIRGINIA. 

This section of Virginia, and especi il- 
ly this immediat ' locality, is considered 
the best hunting ground anywhere in the 
middle part of the State. The fields are 
' alive with quail and rabbits, and the 
woods abound in squirrels; wild turkeys 
' are also numerous. Those who desire 
' first rate sport must leave the line of the 
railroad, where every station sends forth 



daily a motley gang of amateur hunts- 
men, armed with every variety of gun 
and accompanied by every conceiveable 
style of dog, from the thoroughbred 
pointer down to the " cur of low degree," 
and who scare up all game within a ra- 
dius of five miles. The very best place is 
a little vilhige of about a dozen ho.ises 
called Jeffersonton, in Culpeper county, 
and fifteen miles from Culpeper Court 
House. It is surrounded by many well- 
tilled farms, which have large fields, and 
in these stubble fields the partridges 
(quail) feed. There are but few of the 
citizens who keep dogs; their time, as a 
general thing, is too precious to be wast- 
ed in hunting, and but few, very few, of 
the lands are posted. To a party of 
good shots, with fine dogs, they can get 
their fill of the best of shooting, though 
they are advised not to go until the first 
of November; for it will take several 
heavy frosts to kill the weeds enough to 
allow the dogs to scent the birds. 

To those -who desire to get full infor- 
mation let them write to George MyerF, 
at Jetfersonton, who will board them, 
and give them all the particulars, though 
to get there you take the cars at Wash- 
ington City at 7:30 A. M; from there 
Myers will, if notified, take you to Jef- 
fersonton, distant ten miles. 

TROUT REGIONS OF NORTH 
CAROLINA. 

When " stern Winter no longer rules 
the skies," and the bleak, cold March 
blasts have blown themselves out, the 
denizens of our closely packed cities and 
towns begin to long for shady forests, 
limpid streams, and the delicious abandon 
of a lazy Summer vacation. Especially 
are tlie disciples of the rod casting around 
to find, if possible, some new locality 
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The places to which they have hereto- 
fore resorted have become so familiar to 
the public that they are overrun by civ- 
ilization (?) in its worst forms. Pot- 
hunters and photographers, parasols and 
pinafores, crinoline and croquet, steam- 
boats and shoddy, hotels and hostlers, 
railroads and reporters, now swarm over 
spots consecrated and long endeared to 
the heart of many a gallant sportsman. 

There is in North Carolina a large ter- 
ritory which is verily believed to be un- 
surpassed on the continent for advan- 
tages as a quiet Summer resort. There 
is not a railroad or navigable stream in 
it. It has long been known and afJpre- 
ciated by the dwellers on the South 
Atlantic and Gulf coast, and some years 
ago was a favorite retreat for them from 
the .fierce heats of their more Southern 
homes. 

Upon an examination of the map it 
will be observed that in Virginia the 
Great Chain of the Alleghany Moun- 
tains divides, one range preserving the 
original name and southwesterly direc- 
tion, vi^hile the other diverges toward the 
south until it crosses the State of North 
Carolina^ where it turns sharply toward 
the west, running almost parallel with 
the AUeghanies until it gradually sinks 
into the plains of Northern Alabama. 
This last range is called the Blue Ridge, 
and divides North Carolina from South 
Carolina and Georgia. The llrst is the 
boundary between North Carolina and 
Tennessee. That portion of the State 
lying west and north of the Blue Ridge, 
and south of the AUeghanies, is known 
as Western North Carolina It is about 
one hundred and seventy-five miles in 
length, wiih an average breadth of sev- 
enty-fiye miles. It embraces sixteen 
counties, seven thousand square miles, 
and a population of over eighty thousand. 



This section has frequently been de- 
scribed as a plateau, but it is in fact a 
very mountainous region, being divided 
into a number of narrow but exceedingly 
fertile and beautiful valleys by trans- 
verse ranges connecting the AUeghanies 
and Blue Ridge, suggesting a resem- 
blance to the celebrated ligament which 
bound together the Siamese Twins. The 
Black Mountain, in Buncombe and 
Yancey counties, and the Balsam, in 
Heywood and Jackson counties, are the 
most noted of these transversal ranges. 
Indeed, Professor Guyot, of Cambridge, 
who has given great attention to this re- 
gion, and has made careful barometrical 
measurement of several of the highest 
summits, denominates it as the culmina- 
ting point of the great Appalachian 
Chain. On the Black Mountain are 
several peaks — Mt. Mitchell, Cling- 
mau's Peak, and a dozen others, higher 
than Mt. Washington, and on the 
Balsam is Mt. Pisgah, Plottjs Balsam, 
and five or six more, all of which tower 
more than six thousand feet above the* 
sea. No description can convey a clear 
idea of the remarkable parallelism of the 
ridges and valleys which characterize 
the topography of this region, or the 
grand and beautiful features of its scen- 
ery. To comprehend all its grandeur, 
and appreciate all its beauty, one must 
climb its mountains and wander among 
its vaUejs. 

Probably the greatest charm is the 
magnificent climate. From May till 
November is one continued season of 
health, beauty, and enjoyment. The 
nights are delicionsly cool, allowing 
sound and refreshing slumber, and as the 
morning advances the sun pours down 
hot rays, which would be oppressive 'but 
for the breezes from the higii tops and 
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series of observations sliow the maxiraum 
temperature to be about eighty-five de- 
grees, the meau Summer temperature 
being about seventy-two degrees. This 
extraordinary dryness of the atmosphere 
has a fine, exhilarating effect on the sys- 
tem, especially for invalids, and renders 
the country free from annoying insects. 
Mosquitoes and black flies are unknown. 

The valleys have an average elevation 
of two thousand feet, and are generally 
well studded with farms and hamlets, 
but the mountains are, and for centuries 
to come will remain, wilderness. In 
them game is abundant, but in the set- 
tlements it is growing scarce. 

The valleys have each their principal 
stream, taking its rise in the northern 
slope of the Blue Ridge, and flowing in 
a northerly course through the Allegha- 
niesinto the Tennessee Valley. It is a 
remarkable fact that while the Blue 
Ridge has a lower elevation than its sis- 
ter chain, the streams all head in it, and 
run through the others, cutting deep 
chasms and gorges. It frequently hap- 
pens that one may in the space of five 
minutes dip a cup of sparkling water 
from two springs, one sending its tribute 
down the southern slope to the Atlantic, 
the other in the opposite direction to the 
Gulf, to meet after months of wandering, 
having traversed every variety of soil 
and climate beneath a tropical sun. All 
of these streams are pretty well supplied 
with fish. In some they are very abun- 
dant, the pike and black bass of the 
South, both very game, being the most 
desirable. But it is the head waters 
and tributaries of these rivers where the 
joy of the angler's heart — the speckled 
trout — is to be found in untold numbers. 
They are not large, seldom exceeding 
eighteen inches in length, and averaging 
not more than nine; but their great num- 



ber compensates for their size. Indeed, 
it is a question whether it is not better 
sport to whip one of these mountain 
streams, with the excitement continually 
at the boiling point, than casting lazily 
from a boat or clear shore with a strike 
once every three hours. It is no easy 
work to fish one of these streams. They 
come rushing down the mountain gorges, 
leaping over cascades, boiling, foaming, 
and roaring beneath the sombre balsam, 
hemlock, and rhododendron, often for 
miles without a ray of sunshine being 
able to penetrate the dense foliage. You 
must wade, and the water is decidedly 
cold, the current rapid and strong, and 
the rocks — well, slick don't express it. 
He who essays a day's sport here must 
be prepared for anything in the way of a 
ducking. He will not go far before bis 
heels fly up and his scalp is introduced 
to the acquaintance of the rocks at the 
bottom. 

Should anyone be disposed to visit the 
country, of which but an imperfect idea 
is here given, there are several routes 
open. Asheville is well situated for a 
starting point, being, geographically, in 
the centre of the region. From New 
York or any of the New England or 
Eastern States, the best route is via 
Richmond, Danville, Salisbury to Old 
Fort by rail, thence across the ridge 
twenty-four miles by stage, a daily line 
connecting with railroad. From north- 
west via Louisville, Nashville, Kuox- 
ville to Wolf Creek, thence by stage 
forty-four miles— a daily line. From the 
South either one of the routes mentioned 
will be found convenient. 

There does not exist on the face of the 
earth a people more honest and hospita- 
ble than in the mountains of Western 
North Carolina. They do not know how 
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and simple homes they extend a welcome 
and entertain the stranger with that 
whole hearted kindness not to be found 
in the conventional circles of more re- 
fined life. 

THE BLACKWATER EEGIOX. 

The following description of the Black 
Water Region is from the pen of D. S. 
Green, Esq., and affords much valuable 
information regarding this wild and ro- 
mantic section. 

The stream lies among the mountains 
twenty-six miles south of Oakland, on the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. There is a toler- 
able good road through the glades for thirteen 
miles, after which it degenerates almost as 
rapidly as the turnpike out "\,\'csl, which is said 
to have dwindled down to a foot-path that 
finally became a squirrel track, and ran up a 
tree. The last few miles are a mere trace 
through the woods, though this is sometimes 
traveled by wagons, the passengers by which 
generally have the privilege of going on foot. 
The Blackwater is one of the extreme 
eastern affluents of the Ohio. It runs through 
a forest country of probably thirty miles in 
length and width, a tract of some nine hun- 
dred square miles, almost as wild as any part 
of the Rocky Mountains. In all tliis region 
there is hardly a settler to the hundred square 
miles; in the part usually visited by trout 
fishermen, there is but one house, a lone log 
building ten miles from the nearest settle- 
ment. Tears ago Judge Dobbins of Balti- 
more, who owned large tracts of land in the 
neighborhood, built this as a place to bring 
his family in Summer. Tlie property has 
changed owners, but the house is still called 
" Dobbins' " by the mountaineers. In Winter 
the region is entirely deserted, but with the 
opening of Uie fishing season in May a family 
by the name of Kitzmiller moves in and 
accommodates visitors with plain and sub- 
stantial country fare. This is the only place 
in the wilderness where shelter or supplies 
can be obtained, except at " Cosner's," eigh- 
teen miles up the river. Visitors who think 
whisky one of the essentials of life, are ad- 
vised to bring it with them, aa not a drop is 
to be had on the Blackwater. 



Mr. Kitzmiller is kind and honorable, and 
not disposed to exorbitant charges, consider- 
ing that every mouthful of provisions, except 
the trout, has to be brought twenty-six miles. 
Ho belongs to the singular sect of Menouilos 
who, for a wonder, appear to be practical 
Christians. 

Dobbins stands on the summit of the Moun- 
tain between the Blackwater and North Fork, 
and is said by the natives to have an elevation 
of thirty-nine huudrc.i feet above the ocean, 
though ii is more than doubtful if a barometric 
measurement would show so great a height. 
There are sixteen cataracts within hoariug 
distance of the house, and the effect in time of 
flood, when the whole sixteen are roaring at 
once, is said to be tremendous. 

The Blackwater is a stream some thirty or 
forty yards in width, clear of driftwood and 
trash, and the chance for casting the fly on it 
is first-class. The fishing in the proper 
season. May, June and September, is mag- 
nificent. The trout average rather small, and 
have not the activity of those of more north- 
ern and colder streams. Tlie large ones, 
however, will give the wielder of a light fly 
rod enough to do. Their flesli is a rich red- 
dish yellow, a regular salmon color, probably 
owing to the fact that their diet is largely 
composed of crawfish, which abound in the 
stream. The eflect of the cnistacea on the 
flesh of the game fishes that devour them is 
well known. 

The stream flows along after the usual 
manner of trout streams for many miles, until 
it suddenly falls over an enormous ledge of 
rocks, sixty-three feet at one leap. Xo 
visitor should fail to see these falls, nor to 
explore the tremendous gorge of the North 
Fork, which stream tumbles down eight hun- 
dred feet in less than a mile. 

The Great Falls are very difficult of access, 
vet on the rocks at their foot are cut the 
names of two ladies. 

The pure mountain air, the glorious scene- 
rv, the fine fishing, and the entire absence of 
the multitudinous bores of civilization, render 
the region an angler's paradise. The Adiron- 
dacks are said to have become hackneyed, so 
that it is difticult to find a respectable camp- 
ing ground not already littered with fragments 
of lunches, torn newspapers and hoopskirts, 
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the fragments of somebody's braudy flas-k, 
but here is a country still almost iu the con- 
dition it was when the red man followed the 
deer through its spruce forests. Long may 
it be before it is invaded by the devotees of 
fashion 

Largo game is abundant, as evidenced by 
numerous deer tracks, bear signs, and panther 
trails on the North Fork. The rattlesnake, 
troubler of the peace around camps on many 
a northern stream, is unknown here, and his 
absence is borne without overpowering re- 
grets. Black flies and mosquitoes are scarce, 
but gnats abound and bite with a full deter- 
mimation to carry out their mission on earth. 
They are very troublesome while fishing^ 
but easly disposed of in camp by building a 
sufficient fire, not a smudge, but one compos- 
ed of half a cord of wood or so. Start this 
and the camp is pleasanter for it, while the 
gnats will leave in orbits which for that night 
at least are not returning curves. 

A considerable swindle is practiced at 
Oakland, on visitors to the Blackwater, the 
price charged them depending entirely on the 
estimate formed by the guides as to the depth 
of their pockets or their anxiety to get for- 
ward ; as high as $10 per head being exacted 
from some parties for transportation, while 
others are conveyed for $5. A fair price for 
the service is from $4 to $5 per horse, pay- 
ing also for an extra horse for the guide. 
Contracts should be made for transportation 
to Dobbins', as some of the guides have a 
trick of agreeing to take, passengers to the 
Blackwater and fultilliug the bargain by leav- 
ing them in the wilderness at the nearest 
point on the shore of that river, without the 
slightest information as to the country or any 
base of supplies. At the house local guides 
can be obtained, and those who wish to camp 
can get information as to the region and the 
best fishing grounds. It is a useless expense 
to take guides, as some parties do, from Oak- 
land, to remain with them during their en- 
tire stay, except for such as propose to camp 
and have not yet learned how to take care of 
themselves in the wilderness. Such babes- 
in-the-woods will do well to take a guide and 
stick by him. To be lost in the Blackwater 
forest would be no joke. Thomas Barley, at 
Oakland, is a good man to apply to for infor- 
mation or conveyance to the stream. Trans- 



portation back to Oakland can be obtained of 
W. Kitzmiller at Dobbins' at any time at a 
reasonable price. 



IN THE GOLDEN STATE. 

In addition to the sections here men- 
tioned, reference to other hunting and 
fishing localities in California will most 
likely be given on other pages: 

ON THE TEXAS PACIFIC. 

It is doubled if any State in the Union pre- 
sents a more attractive field for the hunter or 
sportsman than California. Since its comple- 
tion, the Texas Pacific Railroad proceeds the 
entire length of the State to the Colorado River, 
making its way through the valleys at the foot 
of the Sierra Novadas and Sierra Madras, and 
thus presenting to the hunter five hundred 
miles of magnificent ground, unsurpassed for 
accessibility, extent, and variety of game. In 
the mountains may be found the grizzly, cin. 
namon, and black bear, deer, and the California 
lion — which, by the way, is a notorious cow- 
ard. The deer and antelope migrate to the 
lower levels during the Winter months. Here 
are also seen the mountain quail, a lordly bird, 
which is as white-meated as a chicken, and at- 
tains a large size. On the plains are number- 
less quail and hares, and on the lagoons and 
rivers iu the Winter, may be found immense 
quantities of wild geese, canvas-back and mal- 
lard ducks, with the more common varieties. 
Approaching in great flocks during the months 
of October and November for their Winter's 
sojourn, they remain until Spring, infesting the 
rivers and grain fields of the upper and lower 
Santa Anna valleys, offering rare sport. 

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 

The Sacramento, Pitt and McCloud rivers, 
near Mount Shasta, afford some of the best 
salmon and trout fishing to be found on the 
globe. Sir Rose Price, a gentleman who has 
fished in some of the best countries for this 
sport in the world, states that the trout fish- 
ing in these rivers and their tributaries is the 
best he ever experienced, when the numbers, 
gameness, size and quality of the fish in these 
cold, clear and rushing rivers are considered. 
To be sure, about June and July, when the 
salmon are spawning, the fly is of very little 
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season, in some, if uot all of these streams, 
they take the fly pretty well. The cause of 
their uot rising to the fly is that iu the months 
of June and July, perhaps earlier or perhaps 
later thau this, it may happen the trout are 
feeding upon the salmon roe that is floating 
down the stream or are disturbed in the gravel 
or sand in the eddies by the trout themselves, 
and which although fiercely guarded by the 
male salmon, who remains by the female while 
discharging her eggs, and, after dropping liis 
melt over them, drives, or attempts to drive ofl' 
all intruders, of course including the trout and 
perhaps others of his own kith and kin, who 
are known to be very destructive even of their 
own particular kind. This is especially the 
case where the holes are deep, a little away 
from the swift current, and where great num- 
bers of salmon rest, and which aflord the In- 
dians capital opportunities to spear them. 
Every year the numbers of fisherman who re- 
sort to these waters as the ne plus ultra of 
angling sport, and their neighborhood, as the 
habitants of deer and many varieties of the 
larger game, are increasing. Those who can 
aft'ord the time and means have a grand time 
of it. They generally camp out either on the 
shores of one of the many rivers which, flow- 
ing from the base of Mt. Shasta, form the Sac- 
ramento, Pitt, or McCloud, or on one of the lat- 
ter. The canyons are heavily wooded with 
magnificent old trees through which these pure 
and cold waters from melting snow flow. 
These visitors feast on venison, trout, and any 
other portable provisions they may choose to 
bring with them or obtain from the well-pro- 
vided public houses, and the best sauce they 
possess is a good appetite. There is a pretty 
long stage journey from Redding, the terminus 
of the railroad, but men who can camp out and 
fish, are supposed to be well able to stand a 
day and night's travel and a strong shaking 
up. The scenery, to lessen the fatigue, is pic- 
turesque and indeed magnificent. Here are 
the primeval forests, pine-tinctured mountain 
air, and never failing sport with the trout and 
salmon ahead, as the fish seen jumping every- 
where in the passing streams attest. The sal- 
mon that are taken average about twelve 
pounds each. So many of them can be cap- 
lured with salmon roe, the fishing soon be- 
comes monotonous. The attention after a Ut- 
tle while is turned to brook trout and Dolly 



Vardeos. It is quite common to catch fifty of 
these per day, averaging about a pound each. 
The Dolly Varden is the rarest sort to bag. 
They weigh heavier, are gamier than the brook 
trout, have some yellow and red spots on their 
sides, but are not so beautiful either in shape 
or color, nor so gpod in the quality of their 
meat. The supplj- of fish is inexhaustible, 
and the charm of fishing would be as much so 
could they be creeled by means of the fly in- 
stead of the roe-bait. But wliat a splashing 
and struggling and excitement there is on the 
shores of these Ihicklj' peopled waters ;it any 
rate, and upon the whole the trip to a thorough 
angler and loverof the grand and beautiful and 
the healthful, cannot be otherwise than highly 
satisfactory and delightful. 

AROITND SACRAMENTO. 

Tliere are many fine liunling and fishing 
grounds in the neighborhood of Sacramento, 
California. Deer, hare, rabbits, wild geese, 
and ducks of all kmds, snipe, plover, curlew, 
quail, &c., are always to be had by those who 
are willing to go where they are. Resident 
sportsmen often hitch up a team at one or two 
o'clock of an afternoon, and manage to get a 
good half day's sport near the city. But to 
tiie sportsman who goes there for pleasure, 
with lime and means at his command, Califor- 
nia ofl'ers the most tempting allurements. In 
January the climate is delightful, the mass 
green, and the soft perfume of violets and ger- 
aniums is quite perceptible from under your 
window, while the sun shines out bright and 
warm, with the thermometer somewhere be- 
tween fifty and sixty degrees. Ofl' iu the east, 
stretching from north to south as far as the eye 
can reach, like a wall of white marble, runs 
the Sierra Nevada chain of mountains, whose 
summits are white with snow, forming a pic- 
turesque background to the valley in front an 
the foothills warm-looking and green with ver- 
dure. On the western side of the Sierras there 
are no grouse, excepting tliose which stay high 
up in the mountains near the summit. There, 
too, are found in large numbers the " mountain 
quail," a species larger than the blue valley 
quail, of a brownish-gray color, and with (in 
the male) a long plume rising on the top of the 
head, and falling behind almost to the middle 
of the back. At the summit of the mountain, 
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ten thousand led above the sea level, stands 
ail excellent hotel, surrouu'led by cliffs and 
valleys, waterfalls, and clear cold streams 
coursing- down to the ocean, in whose eddies 
and little holps are the most luscious of moun- 
tain or brook trout ; and all through the moun- 
tain ranges, black bears, deer, grouse and 
quail. 

OJAI VALLEY. 

One of the prettiest little nooks in all Cali- 
fornia is tlie Ojai Valley — or valleys, rather, 
for there are two of thera — commencing about 
a dozen miles directly east of San Buena Ven- 
tura, on the Pacific coast. It is of the lower 
valley that we speak. It is about six miles 
long and two wide. Through it run two 
streams that never fail even in the driest sea- 
son, while during the rains they are increased 
to two or three times the number. A portion 
of the valley, almost one mile wide by two in 
length, is almost as level as a floor, and is 
filled with grand old live and wliite oak trees, 
giving the appearance of some old and well 
cared-for park. The whole valley is a Colo- 
rado park on a very small scale. On all sides 
rise the mountains like the sides of a Roman 
amphitheatre. With every hour's motion of 
the sun, with every passing cloud, these moun- 
tains have a different color, tone, and shade. 
Sometimes they are covered with heavy, 
threatening storm clouds, and sometimes they 
are bathed in the most tender and delicate 
shades of green. But it is at sunset that they 
are most strikingly beautiful. While the whole 
west is filled with living, liquid, golden light, 
the mountains at the western end are in dark 
shade, but those at the eas'.ern end are covered 
with a brilliant amethyst. Game abounds in 
plenty at the proper season. In the Ventura 
River some fine trout are caught. When the 
water grows low, as it does by August, the 
fish retreat far up the streams to the shades of 
the narrow canyons to enjoy the cooler waters 
nearer their source. But the quails — the pret- 
ty, lively, active little quails — how they do 
abound! In the morning or evening they are 
found in immense numbers almost anywhere 
along the base of the foothills, or at mid-day 
by the streams, to which they go with the ut- 
most regularity. Rabbits are abundant, and 
English snipe plenty in season. Deer are 
found in considerable numbers in November. 
There is a hotel and a boarding-house in the 



little village of Nordhofif, about the middle o 
the valley, at either of which one can be com- 
fortably entertained. 

SINNEMAHONING COUNTRY. 

From the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande 
within those bounds, there is no better re. 
gion for brook trout and ruffed grouse than 
tliat about the Sinuemahoning River in Potter 
Co., Pa., tlie trout making up in flavor, num- 
bers and game qualities what they may lack in 
size, and being nearly at the head even in 
the later particular, and the grouse being in 
all respects unexcelled. Deer,, bears, wild 
cats and panthers are also moderately abun- 
dant; wolves and the various fur bearing 
animals are also in moderate abundance. 
Ducks and geese are rare, wild turkeys un- 
known, and quail scarce. There are plenty 
of woodcock in season ; as to wild pigeons, 
hey once nested there, and darkened the air 
with their flight. 

The Sinneraahoning, at a small hamlet, put 
down on the county maps as Wharton Mills 
P. 0., it divides; or, rather, the East and 
First Forks of the stream here unite. Tlie 
village consists of a few scattering houses, 
but does not boast of either hotel, store or 
shop. The waters of the creek are crystal 
clear, and, as yet are unpolluted by tannery 
or factory, and the P^ast Fork is even free 
from saw mills. Her-e, unquestionably is to 
be found to-day decidedly the best trout fish- 
ing in the State. About a mile below the 
forks is an old mill, and under the dam a dark, 
deep pool, where you can always depend on 
taking a string of fish. During the day, deep 
bait fishing is unusually successful, but at 
sunset the surface of the pool and of the 
rapids below is broken in every direction by 
swarms of brooTc trout ; and there the fly, in 
skillful hands, does its work. Both the First 
and East Forks are beautiful streams, and 
afford excellent fly fishing, with plenty of 
room to cast, while for those who prefer to 
use the bait. Nelson and Freeman Runs, 
Birch Creek and the headwaters of East Fork, 
all within an hour's drive from headquarters, 
cannot be excelled Trout are unusually 
plenty in these streams in the Spring, and a 
week of warm weather is all that is needed to 
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one .-uid a halt" poiuids down, and avemge a 
P>'h1 si/,e. 

The various tribularios of the Siuueraahoa- 
ing number, it is supposed, one hundred trout 
brooks, ranging from middhug to first-rate. 
All the other game common to that country 
ill abundance. 

But the natural approach to this region is 
by the way of Genesee Station, on the Erie 
Road; thence eighteen miles up stream, and 
up hill to the head of the Genesee, and to 
the top-knot of that part of creation, near the 
pretty little village of Lewisville, where in a 
radius ot two miles may be found the heads 
of Geuesee above mentioned ; Cowanesque, 
a tributary of the north branch of Susque- 
hanna ; Pine Creek, tributary to the west 
brancli of the same river, and the Allegheny — 
which has several tributaries, including the 
Oswayo — all trout streams. 

The Genesee and its tributaries furnish 
from ten to fifteen trout brooks, from fair to 
middling. The country along the banks of 
these streams is thicker settled than the re- 
mainder of the country. 

With the Tiadaghtau branch of Pine Creek 
the best of the trout fishing and grouse hunt- 
ing begms ; there are twenty or more tribu- 
taries all good. Passing up the west branch 
of Pine Creek and over the divide, the waters 
of Kettle Creek are reached, and soon the 
charming little town of Germania. At Oleona, 
just below the frowning white pine board 
battlements of Olo Bull's castle comes, in the 
Carey Fork, a celebrated trout stream, run- 
ning its entire length through an unbroken 
wilderness. Below the junction, for five 
miles, extends the Laurel Bottom Creek, 
almost a river, flowing in a succession of deep 
black pools and wide shallow riftlos. 

To reach this arcadia, trams leave the West 
Philadelphia depot of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road Co. every evening at 11:55, except 
Saturdays, reaching Sinnemahoniug Station 
at noon the following day ; fare, $8.35. From 
this point a stage starts on arrival of the 
train, each Monday and Thursday, for Whar- 
ton, distant about eighteen miles, arriving in 
time for supper ; fare, $1.50. On other days 
private conveyance can be obtained at a cost 
of about $5 for a team to carry two to four 
persons. 

Excellent accommodations and bounteous 



fare can be had with Mr. M. T. Seibert, whose 
house stands at the head of the valley, just 
at the forks, at a ridiculously small expense 
If desired, Mr. Seibert will meet a party 
either at Sinnemahoning or Cameron (a station 
a few miles above on the railroad, and a 
shorter drive ; but in that case he should be 
notified a week ahead by letter addressed to 
the care of F. Welton, Sinnemahoning. Guides 
charge $1 a day. 

WHITE PERCH FISHING. 

The following account of white perch 
fishing at Betterton is from the pen of 
the late Thaddeus Norris, and will be of 
interest to those who have never partici- 
pated in this pleasant pastime. 

At the mouth of the Sasafras, twenty miles 
below Havre de Grace, is found the best while 
perch fishing in the country. It is a favorite 
resort of Philadelphians, who leave the wharf 
on the upper side of Chestnut street any day, 
at 4 p. II., by the Baltimore propellers, which, 
although not large, furnish excellent accom- 
modations, arrive at Betterton by sunrise, 
spend a day on the fishing ground, and return 
by the evening boat, reaching home by six or 
seven o'clock next morning, being absent only 
an afternoon and a day. These arc the white 
perch, and here, in their natural habitat, are 
much more game than the same fish in north- 
ern waters, and run from a half to a pound and 
a half in weight. They breed and spend the 
early Summer months in the fresh tributaries, 
but by the first of August, drop down to water 
slightly brackish, where they remain in large 
schools until October. In August it seems 
that the bottom is covered for acres with them. 
The lubberly way is to fish for them with dip- 
sy bow linos, or ordinary hand lines, but the 
angler prefers a springy rod of ten or eleven 
feet, with a stiffish tip; reel, an easy running 
multiplier; line small and of flax ; hooks long 
shanked and about the size of No. 1 O'Shaugh- 
nessy trout hook. Three of the latter ou 
snood four or five inches long, are attached to 
the line by loops, beginning a foot above the 
sinker, and are five feet apart. The sinker 
varies in weight from an ounce to throe ounces, 
according to the strength of the tide. The 
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crabs, or even slips cut from the sides of the 
perch. There are known resorts of the fish, 
and an hour or two before high or low water, 
until the same time after the turn of the tide, 
is the time for taking them. As soon as the 
boat is anchored, the rod is extended from side 
or stern; the sinker with the baits runs the 
line from the reel and finds the bottom. There 
is a pull downward by tiie perch, a pull up- 
ward by the angler, and the tip of the rod is 
lowered; then another pull, and another perch 
hooked, and then a third in the same manner, 
when the angler reels up and lifts his fish on 
board. On a good day it is not uncommon 
for three or four fishers to kill from fifty to 
eighty dozen. The boats are staunch and 
roomy, and will, with plenty of room, hold 
four or fi%'e anglers. The house at Betterton 
— a peach port, where the boats stop — is kept 
by a jolly little fellow named Tommy Crew. 
He has made a large addition to his house, 
and has airy, pleasant rooms. His charges are 
very moderate. With the high bluffs on the 
eastern, and the islands (Spisutia, a celebrated 
one for ducks, being one of them) on the west- 
ern, the fine bay for sailing, and the good 
fishing, it is a pleasant place of resort. 

TIM POND, MAINE. 

Not only is Tim Pond noted for its 
excellent trout fishing, but the section 
of country in which it is located is a 
splendid game region, all the different 
varieties of birds and animals indigene- 
ous to this part of the country abound- 
ing in goodly numbers. Besides Tim 
Pond proper, there are several other 
ponds and streams in the immediate vi- 
cinity that are well stocked with trout; 
and it is hard to find a locality, so easy 
of access, that, when the hunting and 
fishing is combined, will yeild better 
sport, or afford the visitor more real 
solid pleasure. 

The real pond, according to the State 
survey, has a surface of about a thousand 
acres, but some few acres have evidently 
been partitioned off by the industrious 
beaver many years ago. It is a beauti- 



ful sheet of clear, sparkling water, 
nestled down among the green trees, 
hills, and mountains, and is literally alive 
with trout. The angler has only to cast 
his line to gain the speckled prizes. 
There is no fish in this lake except trout. 
Never has one of any other species been 
taken there. The lake is swarming with 
its exclusive inhabitants, which can be 
taken by bait or by a " fly," by a novice 
or by a professional. Few have " whip- 
ped" these waters, because few know of 
them, though each year their fame is 
increasing. For one desiring the life of 
a fashionable hotel this is not the place. 
It is the place of the true sportsman, the 
place for recreation, for health, the place 
to worship God in his first temple. Tim 
Pond Strea'm, which connects the lake 
with Dead River, is a charming stream, 
with high embowered banks, numberless 
rapids, and three dashing cascades. The 
deep basins at the foot of each waterfall 
is alive with trout. Tim Pond is some 
six or seven miles from Eustis, about five 
miles of the distance being through a 
dense wilderness of spruce, fir, pine, and 
cedar. This dense woodland is inhabited 
by large game. There are many evi- 
dences that Bruin finds a congenial home 
here, but he does not seek acquaintance 
with man. Deer, caribou, and moose, 
in the season, can be hunted here, with 
proper dogs and outfit, to advantage and 
with great sport. In the openings grouse 
are very abundant. The lake is reached 
by railroad to Farmington, thence by 
stage, or private carriage on good roads, 
via New Vineyard, New Portland, and 
Kingfield to Eustis. The drive on a Sep- 
tember day — at the foot of rugged moun- 
tain and by side of the dashing Carry- 
bassette River — is most enjoyable to any 
lover of nature. At Eu.stis, accommo- 
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Smith, and at which phice guides can 
also be obtained. Anotlicr route is by 
the Maine Coutral Railroad to Anson, 
thence by stage and private conveyance 
t6 the residence of Mr. Kennedy Smith, 
Eustis, Maine, of whom all further infor- 
mation can be had. 

WHERE TO GO FOR GROUSE 

A FEW HINTS FROM A NATIVE. 

In the first place decide what point 
to go to. If you go without any fixed 
point in view you may spend a week of 
time before you find a good place. In 
Iowa this game is abundant over most of 
the western half of the State. From 
Des Moines northwest stop at Grand 
Junction or Gowrie, north of there, or 
at almost any station west of Grand 
Junction. Going west from Des Moines, 
stop at Stuart, and take stage line to 
Fontanelle, twelve miles out. Excellent 
shooting conveniences, and extends for 
twelve miles further. Twelve miles west 
from Stuart is Casey. Take stage from 
there to Fontanelle, twenty-four miles. 
Every foot almost abounds with chick- 
ens, and at almost any station west of 
Casey good sport can be had. In most 
cases it will be necessary to go from four 
to ten miles from the railroad, as the 
birds are kept "cleaned out" near the 
towns, but in most places a mail route, 
which carries passengers, extends to 
some country post office. On the route 
northwest from Des Moines good sport 
is to be had after ducks about the num- 
erous ponds by wading the shallow water 
and "jumping them up." About Sep- 
tember 1st they begin to resort to the 
stubble fields morning and evening, and 
make good shooting there. Sandhill 
and white cranes are also there, but very 
shy. The other route abounds in high, 
rolling ground, affording splendid views, 



and is absolutely free from malaria, and in 
almost every hollow clear pure water is 
found. No game there but " hens " and 
rattlesnakes. They are hundreds of other 
places just as good as those mentioned 
above, but those only are suggested of 
which the writer has personal knowledge. 
The best sliooting is from August 15th 
to September 15th. As to dogs, it is 
uncertain about getting them here. If 
you have a good one, bring him. A dog 
that has only hunted quail and cock will 
frequently flnsh chickens, as they do not 
lie very well. A good ruffed grouse dog 
is just the thing if lie will only range far 
enough. Breech-loaders should bring 
full supplies of everything except pow- 
der and shot, say 1,000 rounds for a three 
weeks' shoot. 

Now, supposing you are snugly quar- 
tered at some farm house. After an 
early breakfast you take thirty or forty 
cartridges and start for a wheat stubble 
that is bordered by the open prairie. 
Walk about thirty yards from the edge 
and keep your gun ready for instant 
action. If the dog is not used to "chick- 
ens" " steady " him as soon as he scents 
the game. The probability is that a 
number of the birds have been running 
in all directions through the stubble, and 
if the dog is a novice he gets confused, 
and put them up. A good chicken dog 
always stops at the first scent and waits 
for the gunner to come up. If the birds 
are somewhat scattered they will fre- 
quently get up gradually, and by the 
rapid use of a breech-loader, most of the 
pack, from six to twenty, may be bag- 
ged. If they get up all at once, try to 
mark them down on the open prairie, 
and when you see them down be sure 
you mark the spot by some bunch of 
weeds or other object ; for if you do not 
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uever find the spot after once taking 
your eyes off it. If there be a slough 
with grass iu it running through the 
stubble you may be almost sure of a find 
along its sides, particularly in the even- 
ing. The birds always seem to prefer 
the low ground in a field. By ten 
o'clock the birds have mostly filled their 
crops and gone to the grass and corn- 
fields, where they remain till about 3 p.m. 
During the middle of the day they are 
hard to find, as they do not move about 
much. At this time of day hunt in the 
grass along the edge of the stubble, not 
more than eighty rods from the edge, 
and along the hilkides, and on windy 
days always on the leeward slope. Many 
may be shot iu the cornfields by keeping 
the dog well in and taking a snap shot 
as the bird tops the tall corn. When a 
large number go down in the grass they 
run off in every direction, and make fine 
trailing for the dog. They always try 
to alight on some spot out of sight from 
where they rise. They generally fly over 
one rise of the prairie, and stop two- 
thirds of the way up the next, or fly 
round one point and stop on the next. 
After a little experience one can gener- 
ally tell from the lay of the land about 
where they stopped. 

In conclusion, those who go for sport, 
and are Avilling to work for it, will not 
be disappointed. Very few farmers ob- 
ject to shooting on their grounds, and if 
they did, the laws make no special pro- 
tection for them, but, of course, no gen- 
tleman will invade the farmer's or any 
one's rights merely because he can do so 
with impunity; and in return for this 
generous privilege given by the farmer, 
the sportsman should not forget to divide 
his game with them sometimes. For 
further information address 0. H. Hamp- 
ton, Redfield, Dallas county, Iowa. 



FISH AND GROUSE REGION. 

Solon is located iu Somerset county, 
Maine, and they have some good hunt- 
ing and fishing up there. The best way 
to go is by way of the North Ansonby 
Railroad. There is a daily stage to 
Solon, and there is some talk of putting 
on a daily stage from Solon to the Forks, 
thirty-one miles; from the Forks to 
Moose River is thirty miles. In the 
vicinity of Solon are some fine trout 
brooks, and five miles from the village 
is a good trout pond. One mile from 
the village, at Carritunk Falls, on Ken- 
nebec River, magnificent trout are 
caught. Some caught there in the Sum- 
mer of 1871, tipped four pounds. In 
Carrying-place Town there are three 
good pondg. In the first pond are trout 
that weigh about half a pound. A Mr. 
Ellis has a camp there and keeps a kind 
of a hotel, where he has a good deal of 
company in the Summer. This pond is 
three miles from the river, and four miles 
from J. Carney's Hotel in Moscow. In 
Carritunk is Pleasant Pond, where the 
fishing has to be done at night. The 
water is so clear you can see the bottom 
of the pond, where there is fifty or sixty 
feet of water, as plain as if there were 
not more than five or six feet. It is 
fringy around the pond and very cold 
water. From The Forks, five miles, is 
Moxie Pond, with very good fishing. 
There is a road to the Moxie. Some 
very good trout streams are in the vicin- 
ity of The Forks, and from there to 
Moose River one will find partridges. 
A Mr. Gordon says he shot seventeen 
partridges from The Forks to Parlin 
Pond, fourteen miles, and shot them all 
from a wagon in and on the side of the 
road. Parlin Pond is one of the best 
places to go fishing, as it is right by a 
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can go to Parliii Pond and get all the 
fish he wants in the Summer and Fall, 
and he does not need a guide. It is al- 
so a good place for partridges. Fifteen 
miles from Parliu Pond is River Settle- 
ment; two hotels. At this point there is 
fishing enough. Six miles southwest is 
Long Pond; east from Moose River is 
Wood Pond, with three wood ponds 
South is Attian Pond. East from Attiau 
Pond is Holeb Pond. Moose River 
flows through all these ponds, and it is 
good boating from the Attian Pond to 
Holeb Pond. It is twelve or fourteen 
miles by river, with a carry about half 
a mile. Few sportsmen visit this section. 
The best time for fishing is July, the 
flies are all gone then. 

MIDDLE FLORIDA. 

Middle Florida is one of the finest 
countries in the world. All along her 
sea coast are beautiful bays and inlets; 
through the country are fine rivers, beau- 
tiful lakes, and pearly brooks. She has 
grand and wonderful springs, whose medi- 
cinal virtues are kuovrn in all lands. 
She has magnificent forests of pine, cy- 
press, and hardwood timber, ornamented 
with the beautiful magnolia and other 
flowering trees and shrubs. Her lakes, 
rivers, bays, and inlets are full of excel- 
lent fish. Her sea coast have an abun- 
dance of oysters, fish, turtle, and sponges. 
Her forests abound in a great variety of 
game. Her gardens yield the finest 
vegetables, and have the most beautiful 
flowers in bloom all the year. Her 
orchards bear the most delicious fruits 
and berries, and her vineyards the finest 
grapes that make the best of wine. Mid- 
dle Florida is bounded on the north by 
Georgia, on the east by the Suwannee 
River, on the south by the Gulf of Mex- 
ico, and on the west by the Apalachicola 



j River. The district from one hundred 
I and twenty to one hundred and forty miles 
in length, and seventy to eighty miles 
in width. A peculiar feature in Middle 
I Florida is the number of lakelets of clear 
pure water scattered all over the country, 
I varying in size from half an acre to an 
' acre or more in exfent. They, as a gen- 
i eral thing, are very deep, have no outlet, 
and contain an abundance of excellent 
fish. They seem to have been placed 
there for a wise purpose — to supply the 
wants of every family i>.t their own doors, 
without hire or reward, with a splendid 
article of food. In all the countries along 
the Gulf of Mexico, and in nearly all the 
heavily timbered lands in the others, are 
to be found all kinds of game, such as 
bear, deer, wild turkeys, panthers, cata- 
mounts, wild cats, &c. Deer and turkey 
are plentiful. In all the lakes, rivers, 
and creeks are an abundance of the finest 
fish, such as trout, perch, jack or hake, 
catfish, blackfish, bream, »_^c. On the 
coast there is the finest of oysters, clams, 
turtle, and every variety of salt water 
fish. During the Winter, all the lakes, 
ponds, bays, inlets, rivers, &c., have an 
abundance of every variety of water 
fowl. Sportsmen should visit Middle 
Florida by all means and take a hunt 
and a fish down on the coast. Troy, 
the county seat of Lafayette county, is 
on the Suwannee River, and is at present 
the head of steamboat navigation. It 
contains about fifty inhabitants. It is 
near one of the best regions for hunting 
in all Florida. Xew Port, on the St. 
Mark's River, six miles from the Gulf of 
Mexico, was once an important commer- 
cial place. Above the town is one of 
the finest sulphur springs in the State, 
whose waters contain great curative 
powers, and have performed almost mir- 
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from nearly all parts of the Union re- 
sorted tbcre to drink of and bathe in the 
health-giving waters of the springs. 
Across the St. Mark's Eiver, opposite, 
are hunting grounds not excelled in the 
South in all probability. Bear, deer, 
turkeys, Szc, are in the greatest abund- 
ance. It is represented as a magnificent 
game country. 

THE BEAVERKILL REGION. 

The Beaverkill region of Sullivan coun- 
ty, N. Y., is famous not only for the rare 
trout fishing that its Dumerous streams 
afford the angler, even in these later 
days when trout fishing within respect- 
able distance of the metropolis has come 
to be not much more than a memory, but 
for its broad forests, and secure ridges 
where the deer and bear still roam at 
will. There is a section, however, lying 
between the great Beaverkill and civi- 
lization, which is not so well known, but 
which is fully as prolific in all that the 
sportsman craves. The township of 
Bethel, in Sullivan county, surprises 
everybody with the excellent hunting it 
provides. Deer are plenty ; so many 
bear have not been seen since the days 
i of the prairie hunters ; and as to grouse 
I and the smaller game, the woods are full 
of them, Smith Schoonmaker keeps a 
I " sportsman's rest " in Bethel, about ten 
1 miles from Monticello. In 1877 no less 
I than twenty deer were killed early in the 
; season by parties from Newburg and 
Paterson, and the same year three deer 
I were killed by local hunters in one week 
in December six miles from the village. 
Near Monticello the grouse shooting is un- 
surpassed. Dave Avery, of the Mansion 
House, who is equally at home behind 
setter or deerhound, or in hand-to-hand 
I contest with bear, says that the lover of 
grouse shooting could never find better 



sport than can be had within three miles 
of Monticello. This village is the cen- 
tre of the White Lake, Black Lake, 
Sockett Pond, and other wild hunting re- 
gions, and no more convenient locality 
or one that gives better promise to the 
sportsman than this same section of Sul- 
livan county can be found. From Mon- 
ticello one is in easy reach of the Beaver- 
kill region also. Monticello has five 
trains from New York via Erie Railway 
to Port Jervis, then by Port Jervis and 
Monticello Railroad. Sportsmen visit- 
ing this region, by going to the genial 
Sheriff Morris's mansion house, will find 
everything pleasant, and be furnished 
full information as to hunting grounds, 
trout streams, &c. 

WHERE TO ROUGH IT. 

BY J. H. BATTY. 

As there are many of your subscribers 
who wish to " rough it," and do so in a 
country where there is no danger from 
hostile Indians, I give the following notes 
for those who may " pull out " from some 
frontier town for a few months' camp 
hunt. Denver, St. Pant, Cheyenne, 
Fairplay, or any mining town in Colo- 
rado or Montana, will be a good point 
to start from. Do not spoil what might 
be a pleasant trip by following a wagon 
train, over dusty plains and rough roads, 
through endless sage bushes and prickly 
pears. Start out with confidence well 
fixed for any emergency, and if traveling 
on the plains, keep near the river bot- 
toms, where cotton-wood timber abounds, 
and an undergrowth of willows, aspens, 
box-cedar, and "bull" berry bushes. 
The game naturally collects in the scat- 
tering belts of timber in the bottoms, 
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favorite fand-bar, or grazing grounds on 
the edge of tlie timber. I will guarantee 
plenty of game in the Missouri Valley, 
anywhere from Fort Bentou to Fort 
Abe. Lincoln, or the western terminus 
of the Northern Pacific Railroad. One 
can go to Bismarck and thence by supply 
boats to any woodman's camp on the 
upper " Mesari." Woodmen and trap- 
pers are occasionally " taken in" by the 
Dakotas or Sioux Indians, yet if one em- 
ploys a good hunter he can hunt in com- 
parative safety. The scenery on some 
parts of the Missouri River is grand and 
picturesque. Large cliffs rise perpendic- 
ularly out of the water, and their flat 
vertical sides cast gloomy shadows over 
the muddy waters. In many places the 
limestone and granite rocks loom up on 
both sides of the river, looking in their 
curious forms like the ruins of some 
giant city. Many rocks have spires 
running high in the sky, and others have 
natural windows and cornices which adds 
to the sight of delusion of a ruined city. 
Among these rocks the mountain sheep 
collect in large bands, running out in 
bold relief on projecting craigs, and won- 
deringly watch the passing boats. In 
the evening the wandering prong horns 
— antelope — are seen gazing from the 
tablelands above, or wending their way 
in continuous, though broken lines, down 
well worn trails among loose rocks, oc- 
casionally stopping to nip the green grass 
on the natural shelves or flats, prepara- 
tory to taking their evening drink when 
reaching the river. The white-tailed, or 
mule deer, are found in small bands, and 
singly in the willow bottoms, and the 
large wide spreading track of the pon- 
derous elk is seen on every trail. At 
night the bulls roam about bellowing — I 
cannot call it whistling as some people 
do — their continued Ituirlelike notes 



until the canons and valleys echo to their 
cries. Bruin is occasionally found; yet 
further back in the mountains he is most 
frequently met. The slap of the beaver's 
tail is often seen to break the calm of 
" the rolling river,'' and the numerous 
slides cutting into the river l)auks shows 
plainly where the beavers get their tim- 
ber for dams. In many places I saw 
minks skipping along the sand-bars in a 
playful monner until they reached the 
friendly banks. Was it not for the par-, 
ties of friendly (?) and benevolent red 
men who occasionally visit this hunter's 
paradise, the naturalist and hunter could 
enjoy himself to the fullest extent. He 
could travel hundreds of miles through 
the most interesting country by " bull 
boats," canoes, or skiffs, and not have to 
pack a pound necessarily. 

Catfish are abundant in the river, 
though trout are only fonnd in its tribu- 
taries and lakes in the mountains. There 
are too many Indians in the mountains 
for one to wander carelessly about, and 
they often turn up rather unexpectedly 
in the bottoms. 

lu the Sierra Madre Mountains in Col- 
orado, a few score miles west of Denver, 
parties can hunt in safety, and find game 
in abundance. In 1873, I killed deer — 
mule deer — in the foothills in South 
Park, and in some localities they were 
common. On the range of mountain.' 
running from Mt. Lincoln to the Horse 
shoe Mountains are plenty of antelope 
and they can be reached from Fairpla} 
in two or three hours' ride. I have often 
left Fairplay in the morning, and killed 
and packed an antelope back to camp in 
season to have some of its chops for an 
early supper. 

Deer are often found along the South 
Platte above Fairplay, yet I never suc- 
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Country lies bad for still hunting. 
There are good trails — for the country 
— runiiing for miles into the Rocky 
Mountains west of Denver, and with a' 
few pack animals one can roam for weeks . 
over snow-capped mountains, hunting 
deer, sheep, antelope, and bear, and in 
the valleys does are found at evening, 
also dusky grouse, marmots, coyotes, 
foxes, &c. lu fact, the collector need 
not wander about long in searcti of a 
living target when he has crossed the 
South Platte or ".Arkausaw " Rivers. 
The Mighty Arkansas is formed by sev- 
eral large boiling springs in a natural 
pasture lying among rolling hills of pines. 
I have followed the brook until it be- 
comes a large river from the Tennessee 
Pass to a point west of the Buffalo 
Mountains. A day's ride through the 
pass and beyond the source of the 
Arkansas, brings the adventurer to 
Pacific waters, and the head of the 
p]agle River, which is the prettiest stream 
I have seen in the Rocky Mountains. 
Another day's ride down the river and 
trout can be caught with grasshoppers 
by the hundred weight. Opposite that 
almost inaccessible mountain, the Holy 
Cross, the fishing is best, and mule deer, 
bear, and elk abound. It was at that 
point I first heard the so called " whis- 
tle," as one came tearing through the 
bushes, mistaking my picketed horse for 
a cow. Several days after I hunted 
with a rifle for elk, but all I had to show 
for my climbing fallen timber and loose 
rocks for the time, was soleless mocca- 
sins and a bouncing big porcupine, which 
smelled so strongly of spruce that it 
made my companion sick, who helped 
me pack him on a pole to camp In con- 
clusion, I would say, that if there ai'e 
any persons who wish to " rough it " and 
do not know where to yo, I will direct 



them to a good country by addressing 
J. H. Battv, Parkville, Kings county, 
New York. 



CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND. 

Chincoteague Is-land, on the coast of 
Virginia, is a ftivorite resort for sports- 
men, not only from Washington, Balti- 
more, and other near-by points, but from 
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and 
many other cities. In season the birds 
are plentiful and the accommodations for 
visitors ample. What is known as the 
Eastern Shore of Tirginia is a penisula 
composed of the counties of Northumber- 
land and Accomac, lying between Ches- 
apeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. 
Chincoteague Island is in the Atlantic, 
just east of Accomac county, and separ- 
ated from it by a body of water known 
as Chincoteague Bay. The shores of this 
bay, on both sides, are covered by exten- 
sive salt-water marshes, furnishing abun- 
dant food and ample shelter for willet, 
gray-backs, Esquimeaux curlew, long-bill- 
ed curlew, and various species of snipe, 
sandpipers, and other birds usually found 
upon the salt-water marshes of the mid 
die districts. 

Willet, generally, are the most plenti- 
ful, as they breed in the marshes sur- 
rounding the island. The propensit}' of 
this bird to remain in the immediate vi- 
cinity of the coast is such that it is sel- 
dom met with inland, not even along the 
shores of large rivers. At all times shy 
and wary, the sportsman in approaching 
it has to use the greatest caution. 

The long-billed curlew, the largest of 
this variety found in North America, is 
the only one which may properly be call- 
ed a permanent resident. It breeds to a 
great extent about Chincoteague. They 
are not easily approached, and it takes 
a good charge to bring tlu-m down. If 



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wounded, they skulk off amonj? the thick- 
est vegetation, whore they remain per- 
feetly quiet. 

The gray-backs, or red-breasted sand- 
pipers, when young and fat, are very pa- 
hitable. In season they are very plen- 
tiful, and feed on the diminutive shell- 
fish found a short distance below the sur- 
face. 

But to give an extended description 
of the many desirable birds to be found 
in the neighborhood of the island would 
be almost impossible. Chineoteague Is- 
land atVords delightful sport in fishing 
as well as shooting. Ojsters are abun- 
dant, and probably there is no place on 
the Atlantic coast where a sportsman can 
CMJoy himself more than at Chineoteague. 
There are a number of persons residing 
in that vicinity who make a business of 
furnishing boats and piloting visitors in 
search ot sport. The hotel at Chineo- 
teague contains torty-eight rooms. The 
route to the island from New York is 
by the Old Dominion Steamship Compa- 
ny to Lewes, Delaware. There are other 
routes to the island from rhiladelphia 
and Baltimore. 

HKST ri.ACK IN Fl.OKlPA 'I'O 
lUN r 
On the east side o( the lower road 
fion\ llomosassa to Hay Point, about 
ten miles from each place, there is a val- 
ley about a mile wide by four long, inter- 
spersed with small sandy bottom ponds. 
Around some of them are natural grap- 
eries covering acres. Bushels of the most 
delicious grapes one ever tasted annually 
rot on the bushes or ground. There is 
not a dwelling within six miles. "Wild 
turkey, bear, and deer are plenty, and 
large tloeks of parakets feed ou these 
luxuries. It seems too bad to see gi^me 
and fruit so abundant and no sportsmen 



at hand. It is one of the best places 
in all Florida for a party to stay to hunt 
say for a month or so. It lies between 
the Great Gulf Swamp and the Natilika 
Hammock, a kind of crossing place for 
^ame. 

LAKE B0R6NE. 

Tliis noted Southern r sort is much 
frequented by sportsmen from New Or- 
leans and vicinity. The lake is said to 
be one of the t.nest lisiiing grounds in 
the whole South. 

Lake Borgne, Loiiisirtiva. Ibrmeil l\v tlio Gulf 
of Mexico, olVers as tine .-^pori lor anglers as 
any sheet of water in the South. The tish are 
not perhaps so game as those caught iu the 
colder waters of the North, although there are 
some few species cauglit tliere thai, weie they 
tished for witli the same tackle as is used for 
talving the striped bass off the New Knglaud 
coast, would rtH\uire nearly, if not quite, as 
much skill. These are the ledtish and speck- 
led trout. The best place for taking these 
tish, is close to one of the " coquilles" or shell- 
banks, of which there are a great many scat- 
tered over the lake, and which at high tide, 
are covered frvnn two to thrco feet, and which 
are the chief feeding places for these tish. In 
order to reacii these banks, a sail boat has to 
be taken from the mainland, and the start 
made to suite rhe hour when the tide is run- 
ning in. Once at the place and the boat an- 
chored, the fishing begins. The mode of 
catching them down there is, to liave a large 
cotton line, ujhju which from two to three 
large hooks, with bras.s sroils attached, are 
fastened, and on each of these a lialf of a 
mullet is placed for bait, one end of the line 
being tied to the boat, and the other jwrt 
thrown out as far as possible, dii^ctly over 
the submerged bank. The tish come in scsools, 
and as they are very voracious it is not very 
long before you have a bite, sometimes as 
raacy as two or tliree fish striking at a time; 
then you have it. m.Mking your line whiz 
through the water, and if your tackle is not 
strong they will get away, unless managed 
with a good deal of skill. Some say tliat it 
takes a rery good fish.erman to capture a ten- 
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THE M A a O 

Directly to the north of the States of 
Venuoiit and New Ilamjjshire, the west 
of Somerset county, in Maine, there lies 
a tract of country which, although tlie 
seat of some of the earliest settlemints 
on the continent, is yet comparatively 
unsubdued. The reason for this is doubt- 
less owing to the extremely broken con- 
tour of the country, for we find that 
where the land is level the country has 
long been settled. There is no doubt 
but that the vast water power of this 
district wdl some day support a large 
population, but at present the most of 
the streams rush unimpeded over their 
rocky beds and serve as abodes for 
countless immbers of the finny tribes. 
The principal rivers are the' Yamaska, 
St. Francis, Nicolet, Becancour, and 
Chaudiere, on the latter of which are the 
picturesque falls of the same name. The 
largest lakes are Mempliremagog, Mas- 
sawippi, Aylmer, St. Francis, and Me- 
gantie; but throughout the region are 
found numberless smaller lakes, and from 
the hillsides, countless streams gush 
down to swell the volumes of the larger 
rivers. The scenery is romantic atid 
beautiful in the extreme, and the moun- 
tain air peculiarly bracing. 

The region is accessible by way of the 
Grand Trunk Railroad from Portland, 
Maine, Sherbrooke being the most con- 
venient point of departure on this line, 
by way of the Connecticut & Passump- 
sic River Railroad, from Boston, either 
disembarking at Newport or going on 
to Waterloo, and by Hudson River and 
Lake Ciiamplain to St John's, and thence 
to Waterloo. A steamer conveys the 
tourist from Newport to Magog; which 
latter is a good centre of operations. 
There is a fair hotel at Sherbrooke, the 
Magog House; rate $1.50 per day. At 



G DISTRICT. 

Magog there is also a fair hotel whose 
price is about $1 per day, and the same 
is charged at Wiitcrloo for lair accom- 
modations. 

As regards the lishing, tin; toiii'ist 
may do one of throe tilings, he nniy locate 
at Waterloo, Magog, or Sherbrooke, iiiid 
make excursions into the surrouiiding 
country; he may take up his (|U!irtcrs at 
some small vilhige or farm house, near 
which there is good fishing, or he may 
camp out, the most enjoyable wiiyofall. 
In the first case a hor^e and buggy mny 
be hired for about $1.50 per day, and 
there arc many good streams witliin a 
radius of sixteen miles from Waterloo, 
though the fish are apt to be bmall. At 
Coon's Pond, twelve miles, there is 
splendid trouting, the fish averaging 
about half a pound. At Lake Oxford, 
twelve miles, they are taken weighing 
over three pounds; at Rrouie Liike, six 
miles, there is excellent bass fishing, and 
some heavy fish are taken, while in the 
lake at the village you may troll for piko 
with good success. Mr. E. B. Hodge, 
or any member of the " Fishing Club," 
will aUbrd all the information to sports- 
men that lies in their power. From 
Magog, a drive of about four miles lakes 
you to the Lake Oxford above mention- 
ed, and there are several small lakes and 
streams in the vicinity affording good 
sport, and you may angle for lake trout, 
or lunge as they are called, in Lake 
Memphrenuigog if you have the re(iuisite 
amount of patience. From Sherbrooke, 
a drive of about fourteen miles takes you 
to the Brfjmpton series of lakes, where 
are to be found trout, lake trout, and 
bass, but as boats are diflicult to procure 
on thes(! lakes, the tourist had better 
make previous arrangements. Ten miles 
brings you lo Lake Massawippi, where 



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there are lake trout, and this lake can be 
reached by a drive of five miles from 
Magog. There are also small streams 
within a few miles where good trout fish- 
ing may be had, and the proprietors of 
the hotels here, as elsewhere, will afford 
those visiting this section all possible 
information. 

In the second ])lace, there are numer- 
ous small villages near which excellent 
fishing may be had, and though many of 
them have no hotels, yet the inhabitants 
are hospitable and kindly in the extreme, 
and the ambition (?) to become the pos- 
sessor of the traveler's last cent is, as 
yet, unknown. 

Thirdly, as to camping out, the coun- 
ties of Wolfe and Megantic are wild and 
unsettled, as also are parts of the coun- 
ties of Compton, Richmond, and Shef- 
ford, and even parts of the town of Sher- 
brooke, and the tourist would do well to 
arm himself Avith a rifle, as he may have 
an opportunity to meet Bruin in his na- 
tive haunts. Of course, only in the 
wilder parts of the above counties is this 
possible, but there are numerous smaller 
animals, and eagles are quite common. 
Brorapton Lake, and Lake Megantic, 
Aylmer, and others afford splendid sport, 
as well as many tributaries of the Chau- 
diere. The Waterloo Fishing Club have 
a shanty on an island in Brorapton Lake, 
and are exceedingly courteous to all 
sportsmen, and many small lakes near 
their village would well repay a week 
spent on their shores. There are also 
salmon in Salmon River, but they will 
not take a fly. 

The most favorable season for trout 
fishing is during May and June, and the 
latter part of September. During the 
hotter months they are only to be found 
in the spring-holes and deep shady pools; 
but there are several lakes in which they 



can be caught on any cloudy Summer 
day, and during the Summer the cool 
clear air, the fresh- invigorating breezes, 
and the numberless fragrant and shady 
glens offer attractions not to be found in 
the cooler months. 

One of the New York papers thus de- 
scribes 

MAGOG AND ITS ATTRACTIONS. 

At the foot of Lake Memphremagog, in the 
Province of Quebec, is situated a httle village 
called Magog. It is a place where you can go 
and lake your family with you, and get good 
brook irout fishing. Here you will find a nice 
hotel, " The Union House," kept by Mr. John 
Norton, a brother of the angle, and who 
knows liow to drop a fly in the right place, at 
the right time, and also what is of as great 
importance, how to entertain his sportsmen 
friends and tnfeir families. The house is situ- 
ated directly on the lake and commanding a 
fine view of it. Directly fronting it looms old 
" Mount Oxford," said to be the highest mouu 
tain in the province of Quebec, and from the 
summit of which can bo counted thirty-three 
sheets of water, and by the aid of a glass the 
spires in Montreal can be seen in clear weathi r. 
Mr. Furboye, the superintendant. and the em- 
ployees of the Waterloo & Magug Railroad, 
do all in their power to accovnr.odaie sports- 
men as much as possible. At Magog, consid- 
erable sport can be enjoyed. Early in June 
there is good trout fishing, and later in the 
season, lunge are taken pretty freely in the 
lake by deep fishing, among them some of 
good size. Pickerel fishing is good, and some 
weighing as high as three pounds are taken 
by trolling with live bait. Some fine trout 
streams take their rise in its neighborhood, 
and in the proper season a good string of fish 
is sure to be the result of a day's ramble. Near 
at hand also are the Magog and Gary rivers, 
where may be had some of the best fly fishing 
in the whole Megantic region. The rides and 
drives in every direction from Magog are de- 
lightful, and within half a dozen miles there 
are numerous trout streams, in all of which you 
may fill your creel with good sized, handsome 
brook trout. In addition to this, Lake Mem- 
phremagog is well stocked with lake trout, 
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twelve pounds in weight, and have been taken 
weighing as much as thirty pounds. During 
the Summer and Fall months they are taken 
by trolling with a hand line, or what is far bet- 
ter and affording much greater sport, is to use 
a good, strong, well-made trolling rod, with 
large multiplying reel holding from two to 
three hundred yards of lino. With such tackle 
one can feel assured of good sport, as a ten- 
pound lunge is no contemptible antagonist, 
and your nerves will be well tried before bring- 
ing him to the gaff. The boats here are good 
and free to guests. The prices here are very 
reasonable, $1 per day. The table is excel- 
lent and all the appointments are good. 
Guides, and good ones too, can always be had 
when wauted, and they do not expect to be 
paid fancy prices. Should parties wish to 
rough it in the woods and enjoy a few day's 
camping, there are several places which can 
be easily reached from this point, and all that 
is requisite for a comfortable camp can be had 
at Magog. Georgeville, some ten miles up the 
lake, js undoubtedly the best spot for deep fish- 
ing on the lake, there being no less than eight 
or ten good fishing grounds, among which are 
the Drew Grounds, Bigelow, Packard and 
Black points, &c., within a circuit of two miles. 
Lunge have been taken on these grounds 
weighing as high as twenty pounds, and par- 
lies have been known to bring into town over 
one hundred pounds of fish daily in the proper 
season Sugar Loaf Pond, about four miles 
from Georgeville, is noted for its fly tishing. 
The trout are small, the largest not going over 
one and a quarter pounds, but are plenty and 
give good spurt. As many as eighty fish have 
been taken by a single party in a day. To 
fish this pond properly, one should go pre- 
pared to stay two or three days, and either 
camp out or put up at one of the two log cab- 
ins on the shore; but camping is advisable. 
There is splendid lunge fishing in Oxford Pond. 
Numerous bears also prowl around the coun- 
try. "Old Hopps," the noted bear hunter of 
the neighborhood, has the skull of the last one 
he killed. The bear dressed over four hun- 
dred and fifty pounds. This makes the eighty- 
fourth bear he has killed. Magog can be 
reached via St. Johns and Waterloo by rail- 
road which has been recently completed — or 
by Central Vermont & Pasumpsic Railroad to 
Newport, Vermont, and thence by steamer 



through Lake Memphremagog, or by stage 
from Sherbrooke, from which place it is distant 
sixteen miles. For gentlemen with ladies and 
children, it will be difficult, doubtless, to find 
a place which combines so much that is desir- 
able as this. 

F I S H L A N D. 

About one mile long, half a mile wide, in 
places very deep, water very cold, fed from bot- 
tom springs, clear as crystal and surrounded 
by mountains. This is the little lake where 
the prettiest of all trout abound. It is a plea- 
sant day's journey from New York. Seventy 
trout have been taken from its bright waters 
in a single day, the majority reaching one 
pound in weight. Tliere, as in most other 
favored spots, the Spring time is the best to 
take trout in quantities, but they abound in 
such profusion that a fine mess can be made at 
any season. Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, 
is the centre of a fine trout country. To the 
west, in Broome and Bolton, some twenty 
miles, are dozens of little lakes all containing 
trout, and if one prefers pounders to the whales 
of Ryngeley, this is the spot to gather 'em in. 
To the south, some twenty miles, is Averill 
Lake, a splendid water for pounders, while 
fifty miles eastward, in a dense wilderness, 
lies Lake Megautic, where trout have been 
taken that scaled over four pounds. The fish 
there will not weigh less than a pound each, 
fight like "all possessed," and no other fish 
inhabit the lake. Three miles east of Barton, 
Vermont, which is fifteen miles south of New- 
port, lies May's Pond— a grand little sheet of 
water one mile in length, where a basket can 
be filled with " whoppers " in a short time 
To reach this lake country take the 8 a. m. 
train from Springfield, Mass., over the Con- 
necticut River and Passumpsic River rail- 
roads, reaching Newport and Memphremagog 
at supper time, and Sherbrooke at 9 p. m. 
The trip over these roads is one of great beau- 
ty, with ever-changing scenery, touching the 
Green and White Mountains, and winding 
along the two charming rivers nearly to their 
source. 

BREECHES L^KE. 

Not a very euphonious title, certainly, but 
as suggestive as is the name (Spider) gener- 
ally applied to Lake Maccawamack. It is sit- 
uated some fifty miles northeast of Sherbrooke 
and is some three to four miles in length, hav- 



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iiig its outlet at the extremity of the right leg 
of the Breeches. Although " Stanstead " 
places it in the Megautic district, it is more 
properly in the St. Francis district, being north- 
erly of the St. Francis lake and river and 
within the judicial district of that name. 
"Within a ranee of ten or fifteen miles from 
Breeches Lake, are numerous lakes and ponds 
but little fished as yet with rod or troll, and 
literally teeming with trout, lunge, pike, pick- 
erel, and bass. It is doubled if either troll or 
fly has ever been used on Breeches Lake, the 
night hue being the approved method of cap- 
turing the speckled and silvery sided denizens 
of this pretty little sheet of water. The lake 
and speckled trout — a very fair sprinkhng of 
the latter — run from three-fourths to two or 
three pounds weight, with a general average 
of about one and one-fourth pounds. That the 
fish in Breeches Lake are plenty there can be 
no doubt. "In running the lines out from the 
shore," says a gentleman who visited this 
lake in 1876, " fish frequently rose to the min- 
now bait, and in taking up a short line for the 
last time before leaving, out of si.K trout caught 
on it, two were caught fowl. This would look 
as though they must have been having a lively 
time below." There are about three quarters 
of a mile of wood intervening between Breech- 
es Lake and Indian Lake, while the small 
stream c:)nnecting the two is so small and 
grown up with timber that it is impossible to 
get a boat through it. But an old lumber road 
extends between Indian and Breeches lakes, 
which could be bnsl'F'd out in a few hours so 
that a hgut boat CvUild be portaged across, 
when the skillful handling of fly and troll 
would meet with abundant success. The pro- 
per time to arrive there would be about June 
30. In the left leg of the Breeches, lunge 
weighing nearly twenty pounds have been 
caught. The water is generally deep and 
cleur, with beautiful smooth sand and gravel 
beach at the head of the lake. The high ridge 
or promontory which separates the legs of the 
Breeches, would be a very desirable camping 
spot, as from its situation flies would not be 
.roublesome, and the dry timber standing 
ivould be ample to keep the pot boiling. A 
handy man for camp work can be had for $1 
per day. Neither Indian nor Breeches lakes 
are settled. The Quebec Central Railway pass- 
es within five or six milea of the point named. 



OTONABEC RIVER. 

The Otonabec River, in Peterboro county, 
is a noble Canadian black bass stream. It is 
a sluggish stream of some twenty miles in 
length, and from one hundred to one hundred 
and twenty yards wide, winding gracefully 
through forest and farm till it enters Rice 
Lake, a splendid sheet of vjater twtnty-flve 
miles long by about three broad. The fish in. 
this riber are game to the last. The season 
begins about the middle of June (after the fish 
have spawned) and continues till October. 
The bait generally used is live minnow. As 
many as sixty bass have been taken in an af- 
ternoon's fishing by two rods, averaging from 
one to five and a half pounds each in weight. 



THE YELLOWSTONE YALLEY. 



ITS CHARMS FOR SPORTSMEN. 



Many of the journals and periodicals 
have occasionally made mention of the 
famous Yellowstone Talley of Montana, 
and have spoken of its many natural won- 
ders and Curiosities, but few, if any, have 
made any reference to its advantages as 
a field for sportsmen. Of its famous 
geysers, its curious mud fountains, its 
frost-like incrustations of every hue and 
shade, its magnificent lakes, its thermal 
springs and varied scenery, accurate ac- 
counts have been given by Donne, Hay- 
den, and others. But that it is the favor- 
ite Summer resort, the Xevrport and 
Saratoga, of the grizzly bear, the Cali- 
fornia lion, and innumerable varieties of 
fur-bearing animals, and of the feather- 
ed tribes; that the lakes, both large and 
small, fairly teem with trout, and, as one 
writer says, " there are no small trout 
there, few, if any, weighing less than a 
pound," almost no one has heard. En- 
trance to this valley is through the canon 
of the Yellowstone, and this can be gain- 
ed only during the months of June, July, 
Atigust, and September. There is also 
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upper end of the valley leading from the 
great Shoshone Falls and head of the 
Snake River, via the headwaters of the 
Madison and Gallatin rivers-^both of 
which have valleys similar to, but much 
smaller, than the Yellowstone — to the 
great buffalo range between this district 
and the Missouri. This is known as the 
Bannock trail. 

The sportsman will go by the Pacific 
Railroad to Evanston or Cheyenne, and 
thence to Fort Ellis, Montana, which 
last place is but five or six days from the 
Great Basin, with fine hunting and fish- 
ing all the way. He will require heavy 
clothing, and all the requisites for camp- 
ing out. The travel will not be found 
especially difficult, nor will the danger 
be great, as the Indians, having a super- 
stitious reverence for the valley, believing 
it to be the abode of the Great Spirit, 
never enter it. A party of three can 
travel with perfect safety, so far as In- 
dians are concerned, in any part of this 
district by keeping watch upon their 
horses at night, as the lions would mak(! 
short work with them if an opportunity 
was afforded, horseflesh being their fa- 
vorite diet. 

To give an idea of the abundance and 
variety of game, appended are a few par- 
agraphs taken from the official report of 
Lieut. Doane, Second United States Cav- 
alry, who visited this valley in 18*10. 
This officer started from Fort Ellis, Mon- 
tana, on the 22d of August, struck the 
Yellowstone in about eight hours; enter- 
ing the valley through the great canon 
of the Yellowstone. The Yellowstone 
abounds in trout; the writer says: "The 
Yellowstone trout are peculiar, being 
the largest variety of the genus caught 
in waters flowing east. Their numbers 
are perfectly fabulous, but their appe- 
tites extremely dainty. One may fish 



with the finest tackle of Eastern sports- 
men, when the water appears to be alive 
with them, all day long, without a bite. 
Grasshoppers are their peculiar weak- 
ness, and, using them for bait, the most 
awkward angler can fill a champagne 
basket in an hour or two. They do not 
bite with the spiteful greediness of the 
Eastern brook trout, but amount to much 
more in the way of subsistence when 
caught. The flesh is of a bright yellow 
color on the inside of the body, and of a 
flavor unsurpassed." 

All the Yellowstone trout are said to 
be salmon trout, though the brook trout 
is caught in most of the mountain 
streams of this region. 

" Our mess table was here supplied 
with antelope, hare, ducks, and grouse 
killed during the day (on the march), and 
with fish caught ad libitum in the after- 
noon." 

Passing through the canon, and ar- 
riving at the mouth of Gardiner's River, 
the Yellowstone " at this point shrinks 
to half its usual size, lost among boulders 
of the drift, innumerable masses of 
which choke up the stream in many 
places, forming alternate pools and rap- 
ids, which afford great delight to the 
fishermen. The ground will be found 
everywhere tracked by the passage of 
elk and mountain sheep, and bear signs 
are everywhere visible." 

Three miles below the Yellowstone 
Falls the chasm is one thousand and fifty 
feet deep; on the "caps of the dizzy 
heights above the mountain sheep and 
elk rest during the night." 

Entering the Great Basin over the 
high ridges as they descended, they 
" found a large flock of mountain Lheep, 
very tame, and greatly astonished, no 
doubt, at our sudden appearance. Elk 
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side of the valley, and large flocks of 
water fowl were frequently seen sporting 
in the river channel. Here trout were 
caught in abundance." 

At the Great Yellowstone Lake, at 
the mouths of creeks emptying therein, 
are " large, swamjiy districts, flooded, 
and the resort of myriads of water fowl. 
The waters of the lake abound with 
trout to such an extent that the fish at 
this season are in poor condition for 
want of food. No other fish are seen ; 
no minnows, no small trout. There are 
also no clams, crabs, nor turtles — no- 
thing but full grown trout. These could 
be caught in mule loads by wading out 
a few feet in the open waters at any 
point, with a grasshopper bait. Two 
men could catch them fasti-r than half a 
dozen could clean and get them ready 
for the frying pan. Caught in the open 
lake, their flesh was yellow ; but in bays 
where the water was strongly impreg- 
nated with chemicals, it was blood red. 

The whole valley is filled with pools 
of water, a resort for great numbers of 
waterfowl. The ground was trodden by 
thousands of elk and sheep. Bear tracks 
and beaver trails were also numerous, 
and occasionally was seen the footsteps 
of a California lion. During the night 
we were several times disturbed by the 
dismal screaming of California lions, and 
in the morning found their huge tracks 
close around the camp. In the evening 
a grizzly bear, with cubs, was roused by 
some of the party, but as they had not 
lost any bears she got away with her in- 
teresting family undisturbed. These ani- 
mals are very immerous m the basin, the 
green grasses, berries, and pine nuts af- 
fording them abundant supplies of food. 
The small lakes are perfectly alive with 
otter, which may be seen playing upon 
their surfaces at nightfall by hundreds. 



Beaver, mink, and muskrat are also 
abundant." 

" In the evening large nunibere offish 
were caught, one of the privates catch-» i 
ing fifty-two large trout, all that two 
men could carry, in less than an hour. 
In the early morning we were serenaded 
by a couple of lions, their melancholy'; 
voices echoing through the heavy forest i 
with a peculiarly wild, mournful sound. 

" The water fowl on the lake deserve 
a passing notice. These include swans, 
pelicans, gulls, Canada geese, brant, and 
many varieties of ducks and dippers. 
There are also herons and sandhill cranes. 
Of pelicans, immense numbers sail in 
fleets along the lake, in company with 
the majestic swan. The gulls are of the 
same variety as those found in San Fran- 
cisco harbor. I think the pelicans are 
identical with those found in the great 
lakes on our northern border, but am 
not sure, as we did not get a specimen. 
There are several low, flat islands in the 
lake, which are always white with thera, 
at the close of the day. Of the birds 
and animals of the forest, I have seen of 
each several not down in the books — 
comprising, of birds, a sort of large mock- 
ing bird, two varieties, belonging, I 
think, to the getms 'corvus;^ two kinds 
of woodpeckers ; two or three specimens t 
of grouse; also a guide bird, resembling; 
a blackbird, but larger. I saw but onei 
of these the day I went to the bottom I 
of the Great Canon; it hopped and flew^ 
along from rock to rock ahead of ust 
during the whole trip down, waited' 
perched upon a rock while we were rest-* 
ing, and led us clear to the summit again), 
in the same manner, making innumerable! 
sounds and gestures constantly to at-| 
tract attention. Others of the party re-5 
marked birds of the same kind, and act- 1 
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birds of the basin are eagles, hawks, 
ravens, ospreys, prairie chickens, and 
grouse. Of animals, I saw several spe- 
cies of squirrels and weasels, which do 
not appear in the books. Wq saw no 
snakes of any kind in the basin. 

" Crossing the river we moved down 
to a central point of the valley, and 
camped in a little grove of pine timber 
near the margin of a small marshy lake, 
around which were to be seen numerous 
fresh signs of buffalo, driven out by the 
noise of our hasty intrusion." 

It will thus be seen that the abun- 
dance and variety of game is not exceed- 
ed in any other part of the country, and 
from its being undisturbdd by Indians 
is comparatively tame, so that no diffi- 
culty would be found in " making a 
large bag." 

Lieut. Doane made the entire trip 
from Fort Ellis and return in thirty-four 
days, and part of that time was unable 
to travel on account of a severe " whit- 
low." He adds: " The difficulties of the 
journey amount to but little after the 
various routes have been laid down cor- 
rectly. From the 1st of June to the 1st 
of October, the climate is very mild con- 
sidering the location. Both the climate 
and vegetable growths of the Great 
Basin are stikingly different from those 
of the surrounding country. The Sum- 
mer, though short, is quite warm, not- 
withstanding the elevation of the dis- 
trict. Rains are frequent in the Spring 
months, and the atmosphere is compara- 
tively moist. All the grasses grow rank, 
and are not of the seeded varieties com- 
mon to the country, being green and 
luxuriant when the lower valleys are 
parched by the sun. Ferns, whortle- 
berries, thimblcberries, and other pro- 
ducts of a damp climate abound, all be- 
ing of diminutive growth. It is a minia- 



ture Oregon in vegetable productions, 
the pines being about the height of those 
on the East Virginia shore, and other 
growths lessened in proportion. Mos- 
quitoes and gnats are said to be numer- 
ous in the early Summer, but we saw 
none at all. The snows of Winter are 
very heavy, but the cold is not severe for 
such an altitude. Doubtless the intense 
heat and immense amount of hot vapor 
evolved, exert a powerful agency in mod- 
erating the rigor of the climate. The 
basin Avould not be a desirable place for 
Winter residence. As a country for 
sight seers and sportsmen, it is without a 
parallel; as a field for scientific research 
it promises great results; in the branches 
of geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology, 
and ornithology, it is probably the great- 
est laboratory that Nature furnishes on 
the surface of the globe.'' 

All of the above is corroborated by 
Hayden and others, who have since vis- 
ited the valleys and classified its flora 
and fauna. What a magnificent field 
for the sportsman. 



IN WESTERN NEW YORK. 

Although game of all kinds in this 
State is scarce in comparison with that 
found in Western and Southern States, 
there is still very fair shooting to be had 
on game in its season for the sportsman 
who knows the habits and favorite 
haunts of that which he seeks. There 
are probably one hundred deer killed an- 
nually near the Pennsylvania border, in 
Steuben and other counties, while foxes, 
the white and gray hare, black and gray 
squirrels, raccoon, mink, and muskrat 
are found in abundance, particularly in 
the half mountainous section through 
which the Erie Railroad and its branches 
pass. Ruffed grouse are widely distri- 
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the woodlands of nearly every farm. 
Quail are also quite numerous, though 
many are killed by the heavy snows of 
our severe Winters, whole bevies being 
sometimes found in the Spring under the 
deep drifts in the fence corners. Wood- 
cock breed plentifully along tiie numer- 
ous lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks, trout 
streams, and the surrounding brush- 
covered bottom lands, whose rich, warm 
soil produces an abundance of food for 
these voracious feeders, and in favorable 
seasons a large brood is reared. Wood- 
duck are also found along these water 
courses. Ruffed grouse, quail, woodcock, 
and woodduck, are the only game birds 
that breed in this latitude, with the ex- 
ception of a few duck and snipe that are 
belated on their northward flight, and 
seek the secluded and inaccessible re- 
cesses of the marshes and swamps adja- 
cent to the lakes and bays, where their 
nests are made and their young reared. 
The wild turkey disappeared long since, 
and is a thing of the past. Of the mi- 
gratory birds which visit this section 
may be mentioned geese — which, how- 
ever, are seldom shot — brant, loon, many 
varieties of duck — principally mallard — 
black, teal, redhead, whistler, widgeon, 
sheldrake, coot, dipper, snipe, plover, 
and curlew, with an occasional rail. The 
Spring shooting of migratory birds 
amounts to but little. Ducks are often 
poor and unfit for food, and snipe make 
so short a stay that comparatively few 
are bagged. A good bag is occasion- 
ally made in favorable seasons if the 
shooter can be kept posted upon their 
arrival, and reaches the ground at once; 
but in case " Winter lingering chills the 
lap of May," and frequent frosts cover the 
marshes with a film of ice at night, it is 
useless to look for snipe. Immense flocks 
of pigeons formerly visited the western 



part of the State in the Spring, but for 
many years the flight has decreased un- 
til the number of these birds now met 
with in this part of the State is insignifi- 
cant. Ruffed grouse are found in con- 
siderable numbers in all parts of the 
State, especially in the vicinitj- of dense 
cedar swamps, to which they resort for 
food and shelter during the severe storms 
of Winter. At the expiration of the 
close season, whole broods are found to- 
gether in the uplands, and furnish ad- 
mirable sport with the aid of steady, 
well-trained setters or pointers. If, how- 
ever, the birds have been shot at by 
woodcock hunters, they are extremely 
wild, and are only found singly and in 
pairs. A great many ruffed grouse are 
shot around Batavia. A few years ago 
Cayuga Lake, Seneca River, and the 
extensive Montezuma Marshes contigu- 
ous thereto, fairly swarmed with duck, 
and was the favorite resort of sportsmen 
who traveled long distances to enjoy it, 
but the introduction of batteries has ut- 
terly destroyed the sport. The greater 
portion of the birds are driven away to 
other feeding grounds, and tlie remain- 
der are rendered so frightfully wild that 
they will not decoy, and cannot be shot. 



TWIN LAKES IN THE "NUT- 
MEG" STATE. 

The Twin Lakes are fast growing into 
favor as a camping and picnic resort, and 
as there is but little of " civilization," so 
called, on their borders they may be con- 
sidered sufficiently wild for either pur- 
pose. On the mountain tops near at 
hand are lakes as really wild and much 
less frequented than the Adirondacks or 
Maine lakes, and abundantly stocked 
with fish and game. It costs $2.80 to 
get to Twin Lakes Station, via Ilarlem 
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through ticket, and it will pay to go in 
the right season. Try it! 

The "Twins" — "Waushinee" and 
" Waushining," — are located on the line 
of the Connecticut Western Riiilroad, 
some twelve miles east of Millerton, on 
the Harlem, and fifty-seven miles west 
from Hartford. They are on high 
ground, some five hundred feet above 
tide water, and held in place by a range 
of hills that barely keep them from slop- 
ping over into the valleys below when 
the wind blows very fresh. From the 
highest of these hilltops one may over- 
look a great extent of scenery, both up 
and down the Housatonic Valley, with 
the grand dome of the Toghkanie range, 
some two thousand feet higher on the 
west, while a spur of the Green Moun- 
tains that trends, exceptionally, east and 
west, shuts in the view by means of the 
hills of Canaan and Norfolk. The Twins 
are " siamesed " together by a narrow, 
crooked strait, that is barely boatable in 
low water, which cuts through the 
natural causeway that long served as a 
highway, and now affords just additional 
room for the railroad and the " Twin 
Lakes Station." 

The Twins are about as unlike as two 
peas (marrowfat and sweet peas, for in- 
stance), Waushining being clear, cold, 
deep, and nearly symmetrical, with an 
island of some thirty acres in its north- 
western portion; while Waushinee is shal- 
low, long, and in shape not unlike a 
crook-neck squash, with its outlet at the 
stem end, that winds down through the 
mill and furnace wheels of Chapiiiville, 
the forges and scythe works at Hammer- 
ton, and finally, after taking in several 
trout streams, finds its way into the 
Housatonic at ShefiBeld, some ten miles 
further north. Both lakes are well 
stocked with the fish usually found in 



this region, and vast quantities of pick- 
erel and perch are taken from the 
smaller lake during the Winter, and 
many find their way to the city mar- 
kets through pot-hunters, who are not 
quite unknown even here. The large 
lake — some six miles in circuit — has long- 
been famous for its fine pike (pickerel 
they are called thereabouts), and fish of 
five to seven pounds weight being not 
unusual in the bygone days; but since the 
stocking of the waters with black bass 
some years since, the pike are not so 
plenty nor so large. The abundant sup- 
ply of bass, however, more than makes 
up for it, and during the Summer afford 
rare sport to those experts who know the 
when and the how to take them. The 
angler who trusts to a light fly rod and 
fine tackle, with grasshoppers and min- 
now for bait, may land from five to ten 
two pound fish in th6 course of a morn- 
ing, and not find it boy's play either. 

Close around this lake region are 
numerous trout streams, that tumble 
down the sides of Toghkanie, or bubble 
up in copius cold springs along its base, 
which afford the angler fine sport; not- 
ably More Brook and Bracie's Brook, in 
Salisbury, and Bartholomew, Spurr, and 
Lee brooks, in Sheffield, not to forget 
the Sage's Ravine Brook, that divides 
the two States, and can show the finest 
waterfalls, next after Bash Bish, in West- 
ern Massachusetts. These streams are 
hardly large enough for the fly fisher's 
best efforts, though well fed trout of 
two pounds weight have been taken from 
the Lee brook, and very good creels full 
in Sage's Ravine and the More brook. 

Of game common hereabouts there is 
a sufficient variety — grouse, woodcock, 
quail, squirrels, and rabbits, not to men- 
tion mink and otter, fox, wild cat, and 
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as broadbill, sheldrake, whistler, buffle- 
head, brant, black duck, aud in short 
nearly every kind found on any fresh 
water, and in great abundance. 

Of pigeons there is a full share, but 
as they are strictly birds of passage they 
must be taken flying. Since the advent 
of the Connecticut Western Railroad, 
numerous parties of campers out visit 
the lakes from Hartford, Pittsfield, and 
other near towns, and picnic parties in 
Summer are even more numerous, as 
many as five or six car loads of juvenile 
health seekers being left some days at 
the grove near the station, which affords 
ample shade, and, under the care of Herr 
Odeubright, adequate accommodation. 
The cave is always a place of great resort 
during the dry season, and to those curi- 
ous in stalactite and stalagmite-y lure its 
many " marble walls " (limestone, by the 
way) seem to afford amusement as end- 
less as are its but partially explored 
depths. Boats may be had for the ask- 
ing (price fifty cents per day) of Mr. 
Odenbright, near the Twin Lakes Sta- 
tion, and on the large lake of E. Sherman 
Pease, the artist, angler, hunter, and 
trapper. 

A PLEASANT PENNSYLVANIA 
TROUT STREAM. 

Afield and Afloat tells anglers who 
seek good trout fishing aud a pleasant 
stream to fish, within easy distance where 
they can find just what they want by 
taking the train at the Pennsylvania 
Railroad depot to Young Woman's 
Town, at the mouth of Y'oung Woman's 
Creek, Clinton county, Pennsylvania. 
Good hotel accommodations may be had 
at the station, at reasonable rates, and 
the landlord will get you an early break- 
fast and have a nice lunch put up when 
you want to go up the creek. The 



stream is wide and open enough to afford 
fine fly fishing over ten miles, without 
having your leader hung up in the trees 
every third cast. That will save some 
profanity. It has the reputation among 
those who do not fish it, or haven't the 
know how, of being fished out, but the 
writer has never failed to make a good 
basket after throwing back the little 
ones, which we hope you will do. The 
right hand branch, which joins the main 
stream less than two miles from the river, 
affords good sport, except when the log- 
gers are using the splash dams. On the 
main stream you may be sure that the 
trout " ye have always with you," but if 
you fish below the mouth of the branch 
you will be bothered with chubs. If you 
have a week or even a few days to spare 
go up to the " ten mile camp " — there 
will be no trouble in getting a ride with 
the lumbermen, if you have a flask, a 
cigar, or tobacco pouch — where you will 
be comfortably taken in and done for, in 
a cosy log shanty, and your bill of fare, 
if you get tired of trout, will be mackerel, 
salt pork, hot bread, fried potatoes, and 
tea. There is no trouble from gnats and 
mosquitoes until late in the Summer, but 
if you go in August, you'll be convinced 
that Beecher and Farrar have not en- 
tirely abolished everlasting torment. The 
cost of the trip, for railroad fare, board 
for one week, and moderate etceteras, 
will not exceed $20. 

PEWAUKEE LAKE, WISCONSIN. 

Parties from Milwaukee and Wauke- 
sha are constantly visiting this place for 
ducks and fish. The lake is very clear 
and pretty, and affords an abundance of 
food for both ducks and fish. The fish 
are pickerel, pike, bass, perch, &c , aud 
the wild fowl of every conceivable va- 
riety Hold accommodations good. 



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NEW BEUNSWICK 

The following description of the 
New Brunswick salmon rivers is from 
the pen of George A. Fay, Esq., of 
West Meriden, Connecticut : 

The three rivers, Miramichi, Ne- 
pisseguit, and Restigouche, are all 
reached by the Intercolonial Railway, 
which runs from St. Sohn, N. B., to 
Riviere du Loup on the St. Lawrence. 
If the Restigouche is the objective 
point I would recommend going via 
St. John and returning via Quebec 
to Boston, as the distance from the 
Restigouche to Boston is the same 
either way. Route from Boston to 
St. John by cars: Boston to Portland, 
108 miles; Portland to Bangor, 136 
miles; Bangor to St. John, 205 miles. 
One through train daily from Boston 
to St. John, via Eastern Railroad at 
7 P.M., reaches Portland at 11.30 
P. M,, and Bangor next morning at 
6.10 A. M.; connects there with Eu- 
ropean & North American Railroad, 
leaving at 7.20 A. M.; thus giving one 
hour and ten minutes for breakfast. 
Penobscot Exchange Hotel near the 
station; first-class. Arriving at St. 
John same day, 6.45 P. M., making 
449 miles and 24 hours' time from 
Boston; fare, Boston to St. John, $10. 
Parties preferring can take one of the 
steamers ( International Steamship 
Co.) which leave twice a week in 
Spring and Fall, and three times in 
the Summer at 8 A. M. from end of 
Commercial Wharf, Boston; fare, 
$5.50, exclusive of state-rooms and 
meals. 

Train leaves St. John, Intercolonial 
Railroad ( Northern Division), 8 A. 
M., arriving at Miramichi, town of 
Newcastle, 167 miles, about 5 P. M. 
Hotel, Waverly ; situated about quar- 



SALMON RIVERS. 
ter of a mile from Miramichi River; 
but no fishing here. Take a team sev- 
enteen miles up river to Indiantown, 
and go to Frank Jardin's Hotel. A 
small affair, but best there is; terms, 
$1.50 per day. Fishing here in the 
season good, from the 10 th to the 
20th of June; salmon only, ranging 
in weight from eight to twenty 
pounds. Guides not indispensible. 
Can fish from the shore or from ca- 
noes. 

From Miramichi to Bathurst is 44 
miles; Bay View Hotel; no fishing in 
the immediate vicinity. The Nepis- 
seguit, famous for its salmon, empties 
here, but it is necessary to take a 
team up the river; good fishing nine 
miles up at Rough Waters, and at 
points along up river to Grand Falls. 
Fishing may be done from the banks 
or in canoes. Guides plenty for $1 
per day. Scenery enchanting as you 
go up the river. Season does not us- 
ually commence till June 10th or 
later, and continues through the 
Summer. Permits necessary; charge 
usually ^1 per day per rod. Settle- 
ments along the banks near Rough 
Waters. Grand fishing pool at the 
falls. Camp necessary. Salmon range 
six to twenty-five pounds. 

Nepisseguit to Metapedia Station, 
junction of the Metapedia and Resti- 
gouche rivers, is 76 miles. Hotel 
Eraser, kept by Daniel Eraser — an ex- 
cellent house, with accommodations 
for fifty or seventy-five guests. Mr. 
F., an intelligent Scotchman, will do 
everything to make his guests com- 
fortable; terms, $2 per day. Always 
get your guides through him, and he 
will see you are not imposed upon. 
He leases six miles of the river, and 



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grants permits at $1.00 per day per 
man. 

The Restigouche is one of the most 
famous rivers in New Brunswick, and 
the sahnoi) run very hirge, ranging 
from eight to fiifty pounds; thirty, 
thirty-five, and forty pounds are not 
uncommon catches. The season is 
about ten days earlier here than at the 
Miramichi or Ncpisseguit, and usual- 
ly opens from 5th to 10th of June, 
and keeps up through tlie Summer. 
The largest fish are the first that run 
np. Splendid pool within a stone's 
throw of the hotel. Distance from 
here to Riviere du Loup, 179 miles; 
from there to Quebec, 125 miles. 
Whole distance from Boston to St. 
John, 460 miles; St. John to Quebec, 
588 miles; Quebec to Boston, 460 
miles. Total, 1,445 miles. 

Round trip tickets from Boston to 
Restigouche via St. John, and return 
via Quebec, can be procured for about 
$31. 

Expenses of fishing at Restigoucbe 
per day: Board, $2; board of two 
guides, $2.50; permit, $1; canoe, 50 
cents; two guides per day, $1.50. To- 
tal expenses per day, $6.50. As the 
water is very " quick," two guides are 
indispensable per man. Estimated 
necessary expenses for two weeks' trip 
from Boston to Restigouche, $150. 
Plenty of sea trout six miles below 
Metapedia, running from one-half to 
five pounds in weight. 

For full particulars address Daniel 
Eraser, Metapedia Station; Waverly 
Hotel, New Castle, J. H. Wilbur, Bay 
View Hotel, Bathurst, N. B. 

[Tt may be well to say to those that wish 
to cast their flies on the waters of the Xepiss- 
guit, that that stream is leased to private par- 
lies, like all other salmon rivers in Canada that 



are worth anything ; but the lower division, 
or what is called the Rough Waters, can be 
fished by any one on payment of $1 per day 
to the warden. The consequence of this prac- 
tically open-to-all privilege is a great crowd 
of anglers, good and bad, and no sport nor 
pleasure to anyone. Much the same result ob- 
tains on the Metapedia or the lower part of it, 
which is open at the same price. The esti- 
mated expenses are no doubt too light. Allow 
for all probable outlay, and then double the 
amount ; and this will be near the cost on 
counting up the expense on returning home.] 

THE LATJRENTIAN COUNTRY. 

Every one that can spare the time 
should try the Muskoka country, On- 
tario, Canada, where fishing and 
shooting, in their seasons, cannot be 
excelled. For speckled trout fishing, 
the South Branch of the Muskoka is 
Al. The head waters of the Magan- 
etawan River are hard to beat for the 
speckled beauties, and the Namiua- 
taygong or South River will hold its 
own with any of them. Then for 
maskalonge, the Muskosh and Moon 
rivers are first-class, and French River 
cannot be beaten for maskalonge, 
pike and pickerel; and lakes Rosseau, 
Joseph, Spider, Turtle, and Manito- 
waba, and the hundreds of other 
smaller lakes cannot be touched in 
the whole Laurentian country for 
black bass fishing. In the Autumn 
deer are jjlentiful, partridge are found 
everywhere. Moose are killed in the 
vicinity of Lake Xipissing in good 
numbers, also wild geese and ducks. 

The routes to reach these sections 
are as follows : Leave Toronto per 
Northern Railway to Gravenhurst, 
thence by steamer to Bracebridge, and 
then by stage, fourteen miles, to Bays- 
ville, on Trailing Lake, for trout fisli- 
ingou the South Muskoka and North 
rivers. 



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For maskalonge fishing on the 
Muskoka and Moon rivers, take the 
steamer from Gravenhurst to Bala. 
For bass fishing on lakes Eosseau, 
Joseph, and Turtle, take steamer, 
from Gravenhurst to " Pratt's." For 
trout fishing on the jNlaganetawan 
and the Naminataygong, or South 
River, take stage from Pratt's to Mag- 
anetawan Village, thirty-seven miles, 
and for South River, stage it twenty- 
four miles further north to Com- 
monda. For bass fishing on Spider 
and Manitowabah lakes, take stage 
from Pratt's to Parry Sound, twenty- 
four miles; and for French River take 
steamer from Parry Sound to French 
River. And if the sportsman is not 
too thinned skin, while tlie black flies 
and mosquitoes are browsing around, 
he will enjoy himself immensely, as 
hundreds have done before him. 
Guides and canoes can be had at all 
the diiferent places mentioned. 

A very pleasant Summer trip can 
be made at very small expense to the 
back lakes of Muskoka from almost 
any part of the Northern States. This 
country is as yet virgin forest, broken 
by mountains and dotted with small 
lakes from the size of a fish pond to 
some of miles in area. All these last 
are full of gray salmon trout from 
three to nine pounds in weight, and 
also of the genuine Salmo fontinalis, 
which is not a poor liver-fed speci- 
men of his race, but splendid, gamey 
fellows; many of them will tackle a 
balance of five pounds draught. 
Many of this weight have been caught 
several times, and trout from one to 
three pounds, and so plentiful that 
they cease to be sport after a time. 
The route: Go to Toronto, take the 
Northern Railway to Bracebridge ; 



fare $4.50, including meal on steamer 
during latter part of journey ( time, 
seven hours) ; go from Bracebridge 
to Baysville, distance twenty miles 
by wagon, fare according to number 
of party, average price $1 ; take boat 
to Phillips, at head of lake, ffii-e about 
same; then get Allen, or Alven Phil- 
lips to guide. They are both first- 
class men, and know all the country 
for 150 miles around. They are hun- 
ters and trappers by business, and 
also make canoes, buckskin mocca- 
sins, &c. Average price for three 
weeks about $30 each for party of, 
say three, not counting fare to To- 
ronto, from point of starting. For a 
larger party the expense is propor- 
tionately less. Of course this amount 
only covers the necessaries; it can be 
made larger at the option of the par- 
ties going. Best time from loth of 
May to 15 th of July. 

Another very pleasant trip can be 
made at small expense from Toronto 
that will not take more than say two 
weeks. Take the Toronto and Ne- 
pissing Railroad to Coboconk at the 
head of Balsam Lake. Here take 
guides, of whom plenty are easily 
found in the village at a cost of $1 
per day, or $1.50 if canoes or skiffs 
are to be supplied. Then the choice 
of two routes is open, and they are 
both good. Go north to Mudturtle 
Lake, and then Gull River to Gull 
Lake. Again follow up Gull River 
after leaving the lake till Lake Bosh- 
kung is reached. Here is fine fishing 
and shooting in the Fall. A portage 
of about three miles brings one into 
Lake Kushaganigamoz, a very large 
lake with good fishing. If another 
route is desired go south from Cobo- 
conk, through Balsam Lake, theu a 



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short river, and so into Cameron's 
Tjuke. Another short river trip brings 
us into Sturgeon Lake ; then through 
Pigeon and Buekhorn hikes into Dt^er 
and Sahnon Trout hikes. In all these 
lakes the tishing is good ; trout, black 
bass, maskalonge, and lunge are plen- 
tiful, with good duck and partridge 
shooting in Fall. Deer shooting is 
also good about the upper lakes after 
leaving Salmon Trout Lake. Go by 
rail, or follow the Ottanabee River in 
a skift' to Hiawatha Village, on Rice 
Lake. Good bnssand maskalonge tish- 
ing; duck shooting in Fall. Then 
by rail to Cobourg on Grand Trunk, 
and so to Toronto and home. "When 
in Boshkung Lake it is but a short 
distance, with comparatively few 
portages, to Trading Lake. Then 
down the South Branch of Muskoka 
River and through Muskoka Lake to 
Gravenhurst, where the Northern 
Railway is taken for Toronto. 

PRINCE ARTHUR'S LANDING. 

George T. Marks, Esq., residing at 
Prince Arthur's Landing. Province of 
Ontario, furnishes the following in re- 
gard to the hunting and tishing lo- 
calities, hotels. &e., in that latitude: 
•• Prince Arthur's Lauding is situated 
on the north shore of Lake Superior, I 
two hundred miles northwest of Du- 
Inth, in the District of Algona and j 
Province of Ontario, Dominion of i 
Canada. It is within eighty miles by ; 
water of Nepigon River, the celebrat- { 
ed trout grounds, and may be ivach- 
ed from D ninth by the steamers of 
either the Collingwood or Sarnia lines, ! 
two boats of each line leaving Duluth 
every week during the season of navi- 
gation ; or the traveler may come bv 
the same lines from either Sarnia or 



Collingwood — these places being ac- 
cessible, the former by the Grand 
Trunk and Great Western railways of 
Canada, and the latter by the North- 
ern and Hamilton and Northwestern 
railways of Canada. 

*' There are two tlrst-class hotels at 
Prince Arthur's Landing, viz : The 
Queens, James Flaherty, proprietor, 
and The Pacitic, John P. Vigars. pro- 
prietor. Board from $LoO to $'3 per 
day; reduced rates by the week or 
month. Sailboat and man nniy be had 
for $3 per day. hi adilition, there 
are three steamers which may be char- 
tered at from $15 to $30 per day, to 
convey tourists to Nepigon and out- 
standing trout streams, of which there 
are — Carp River, fourteen miles south 
of Prince Arthur's Landing ; Maken- 
zie River, fourteen miles, and Blende 
River, twenty-tive miles, both north- 
east, from this place, while MeViear's 
Creek empties into the bay iu the 
outskirts of the town, and Current 
River two miles from here. On the 
latter streams good fishing may be 
had by walking out them two to three 
miles. Another creek crosses a col- 
onization road (the Dawson Route) 
six miles out, and still another river 
(^Neebing) crosses the Oliver township 
six miles out. The latter stream has 
hardly ever been fished, owing to it 
having been inaccessible till the Fall 
of 1878, when the road was built. Of 
all these streams. Carp River is pro- 
bably the finest tishing, the largest 
fish having been caught — a four- 
pounder (trout) being no uncommon 
occurrence. No licenses are required 
to fish any of these sti-eams. The sea- 
son (trout) is from the 15th of May 
to the 15th of September. Good sport 
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size may had at any time in the Ka- 
ministiqnia, three miles from Prince 
Arthur's Landing; while from tl)e 1st 
of September to the Ist oi' October 
any quantity of salmon trout m;iy bc^ 
caught trolling in the bays adjoining 
and in Thunder J^ay. 

" Partridge and duck shooting may 
be had, but to a limited extent, from 
the 1st of Se[)tember on to the close 
of navigation ; and during the Win- 
ter months caribou shooting is to be 
had Avithin twenty miles. But unfor- 
tunately we are almost inaccessible 
after navigation closes, as we have no 
railway until the Canadian Pacific is 
finished. 

" Of Nepigon, I need not speak — it 
is already so well known — except to 
say, Never buy a ticket to Nepigon, 
for the steamers seldom call there, al- 
though so advertised. The best i)lan 
is to purchase a ticket to Prince Ar- 
thur's Landing only, and the sports- 
man, if he decides on going there, can 
charter one of the steamers or a sail- 
boat and go from here. This will save 
many disappointments and the pro- 
bability of being carried all around 
Lake Superior before being landed at 
Nepigon, if at all. 

" All kinds of provisions and sup- 
plies, including tents, can be purchas- 
ed here, but visitors will do well to 
bring their fishing tacking tackle, as 
the supply of rods, hooks, and lines 
would not satisfy a veteran or even 
scientilic fisherman. Indians and ca- 
noes may be had in abundance." 

Any further information in regard 
to the sport to be had in that vicin- 
ity can be obtained by addressing Mr. 
Marks at Prince Arthur's Landing, 
Province of Ontario, Canada, enclos- 
ing a three cent stamp for return 



postage. Prince Arthur's Landing is 
also accessible from Ashland, Wiscon- 
sin. 

BACHEWANA BAY. 

Bacliowana Bay is one of the most 
beautiful of Lake Superior's many beau- 
tiful bays. There are some wilder in 
scenery, more abrupt in their shores, and 
with higher adjacent mountains. Thun- 
der Bay has a magnificence of view, with 
its grand old cape and the bold heights 
of Pie Island, not to be equalled; but for 
a calm and quiet beauty, which charms 
to {Ireaminess and is full of restfulness, 
Bachewana Bay surpasses them all. En- 
tering it along the wooded coast of Gou- 
lais Point, which shuts out the view until 
the last little cape is turned, there comes 
suddenly upon one's sight, clear and dis- 
tinct over the green island and the miles 
of quiet water, the mountains of its north- 
ern and eastern shores, while the sky and 
water are of that intense blue which 
seems so unreal upon canvas. The moun- 
tain line extends beyond the actual 
shores of the bay on the southeast, so 
that it seems one unbroken chain away 
beyond where we know Goulais River 
lies, while upon the north the sharp gap 
through which Harmony pours its wa- 
ters comes into view, with the higher 
mountains seen through it beyond. And 
with the Summer sun casting the shadows 
of the clouds upon the bay and moun- 
tains, it will make a picture that will 
rival the Bay of Naples. The fishing 
all along the exposed points about Bach- 
ewana and Goulais bays is very fine, pro- 
bably as fine as almost any place along 
the whole lake shore, and as good fish 
are caught as anywhere except in the 
Nepigon. Many of the most experienced 
North Shore fishermen prefer this part 
of the coast to any other. The fishing 



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i$ luivstly from the boat, aud therefor* 
pleasauler thau sirvjuu fishing, where a 
K>njr oast is siuvr <*f a Inish than a trvmr. 
A >Yet»kV alvseniv frvnu the Sault will 
give, orviiuarilv, s^^veral day's fine sjH^rt, 
If this was better kaovra the l»ay wouKl 
W more frei^ueutly visittHl. Oaiiv's 
River, at the extrewo southeast e^mier 
of the Iviv, affor\is J^KHi sport. A sttfn- 
tlemau who fislunl there in the season of 
ISTS. says, '" we pushini up as far as the 
brusli and K^jrs would jH^rwit," and then 
'* went ashvvt^ and pusheti thrv>njrh the 
brush up the strx^am to find sv>me n»pid 
water. «lohu (the jraide^ prtwHied lue, 
breakiujr a iv»th thrvnijrh the under- 
growth, and svH>u 1 saw hiiu bei'kvnuug 
me to eome. On rv\»el»injr him 1 fouud 
him jHvriug over the baiik at the firjt 
jkkU Wtwtvu two rippK\s. The sun 
shoue brightly iu ujkhi the clear ivld tra- 
ter. slunviug iu a s^»av"e harxlly tea feet 
square* m\>re tr\Hit than I had ever lie- 
tore, or have ever siuw, seea at oae view, 
ttuless it was iu a trvnit pA^sv>rve or haK-h- 
ery, aud it w-as a view worth gv^ing tar 
to see. Out <.>f the huadrexis there seem- 
eii to be none less thau ten iueht»s in 
length, with many eighteen v»rttreaty. 

We t\.vk iu a few miuutes six fine 
trvMit with a uaitevi weight v>f or^r fitteeu 
j>omKis: ami. strange to say, though we 
trieii all sorts of fiies and even bait w« 
ov»uld not get another to rise. We cv^i 
not get higher up the stream, the wilvi«> 
ness was so vleivse. 

Jones* Kiver is another good sti^m. 
where fish of two sud three (tounds are 
oftett taken. Therv is an luvtian lodge 
oa the stream, wherv, iu ease of emer- 
genoy. one ean obtain shelter. 

UaruuHiy Kiv\?r will also atHwvi gvxyi 
sport. The river Wow the falls is slug- 
gt^h, dark. aiKl unattractive: but the 
falb suddenly bursting ujKvn you as you 



round a turn in the river, and the scene 
is lively and graad beyond the powers 
of dcscriptioa. The heights are steep 
aad WHHxled upon both .<ides, aud the 
fidls Wtween, with iuterveuiag foam- 
tleekt\l jkWs, rtMuler it a wild aad beau- 
tiful phuv. Near the t\H>i v>f the upper 
fall is a fine jh»oI, that will yield fish of 
fivm two to three pounds, aad ».Kvasiou- 
t;lly four pvniuds. 

Rock fishing is fine ia Carp Kiver. 
Landing at or near and old pier built by 
.<vmie miners, aad following asi i>ld rail- 
road grade until it crosses the river, 
ami thence ci>miag dowa the river, there 
is to l»e found very fine sport. Tr\)ut of 
thret* jx^undsart* not uncommon, and two 
aud a halt pounds arv fre\)ueutly taken, 
iiixxi sjx»rt can W had at Pancake l»ay, 
just near its entniUiV. By taking a Ixvit 
aud aiK*hv»ring just off a little jxMut on 
which the sea breaks noisily, aad drv>p- 
ping your tlies on the water, the fish will 
rise sjUendidly, and in less than an him-, 
yiHi will have a doxen fish that will 
weigh tnU twenty pounds, if not over. 
The fislung is done in water about twelve 
twt deep, the Ixntom covere\i with huge 
rocks and Wulderj, At time$, when a 
fish is h*^H>kett. several others will come 
on: aud follow him around in his strtig- 
gles, re^rviless of the boat or the fish- 
erttkeo. 

— I^KE PisKco is eight miles frv>m 
Lake Pleasant, which latter (Uace is 
twenty-eight mik* by stage frxHu North- 
ville. which is twv» hours' ride by railrv>ad 
fa>m Nunda, New York, A stagx" leaves 
Northville every M<.H)day and Wednes- 
day mornings at nine oVlock. Leaving 
city by mortiiag express, you reach l^ise- 
CO same night. CJvxxi acv\>muuxlations, 
and exeelleitt boats aud guides. May 
and JuQS are the best mouths. 



iiUNTJsa A\n Fisiiixa a hounds and vlkasure iH'Isohts. 



1(5 



ON TllM CHICAIJO c*< NOI 

ON THK (lAI.KNA t)lVlSI()N. 

Gonevii ia looatod on Vox River, nt wliich 
point the rivor is woll storked with black basH, 
pickerel, and oUu r (!sb. Tlie sdrrouiidinjr coim- 
try ia rollinp, about oqiially divided botwioti 
"prairio" and "timber," and nfl'oida lliio 
shooting: in season. I'rairio ehiokeiift (pin- 
nated Kronsc), (luails, woodcook, niflVd gi-onso, 
aud other gaiuo abounds. Nelson's Lake, 



irilVVKSTKKN RAILWAY. 

Niicliusa is niiu'ty-tbreo miles from (1hicn(i;o. 
Wliito l{oi'k, a popidar picnic and (isliinj!; re- 
sort, is sitindod foiir miles norlli of the villaffo, 
and is much l'ro.i|nented l)y parlies from all 
portions of the Slate. Tlio rock is n noted 
landmark, rising!; as it does sixty feet above 
tlie snrfaco of the water of Uock Rivor, and 
above the snrronndniji: prairio. 

Dixon is about ninoty-eiti;ht miles from C'hi- 




IlEAD OF THE nOYEll, NKAR DKNNISON, IOWA — BEAOIIKl) IIY OIHOAGO * NOaTHWESTRRN R. 



Johnson's Mound, and Harrington's Island, 
are popular resorts from one lo seven miles 
from the village. Its beat hotel is the Union 
Hojise, which can accommodate one hundred 
guests; charges, $2 a day. Geneva is thirty- 
six miles from Chicago. 

Flagg is seventy-nine miles from Chicago. 
On Kite Rivor, some llircp-qMnrters of a mile 
from Flagg, there is fair fishing, while in the 
surrounding uplands quail and prairie chick- 
ens are found in large uumbora. 



cago, and ia the county seat of Leo county, 
and, of all Iho counties of Illinois, few equal 
it in productiveness of soil, and none surpass 
it in beauty of surface and heallhlulness of 
climate. Tiiis Westorti Kden, in the northern 
portion of the Rock River Valley, has lost 
none of those attractions which (lunous wri- 
ters have 80 beautifully delineated in both 
prose and poetry. Forty years, it is true, 
have worked wondorl'ul changes. Then it had 
been said that the country boro the character 



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of one that had been iuhabiled b)- a people skill- 
ed in all the ornamental arts of landscape gar- 
dening. Tillages, castles, and enclosures only 
were wanting; everywhere were lawns, flow- 
ers and gardens, and stately parks, as if they 
had been scattered by the hand of Art at 
equal intervals, wiih frequent deer and peace- 
ful cattle, yet all more suL'gcsiive of man 
than of Nature. These lovely features still 
remain, and the herd liave multiplied a thou- 
sand-fold. The villages have sprung up, as it 
were, in a day. The enclosures have been 
built, the stately thickets liave grown to lux- 



fathers. In the vicinity of Dixon are many 
attractive resorts and much picturesque scen- 
ery. A small steamer runs between Dixon 
and Grand De Tour, twelve miles, and passes 
en route many islands and picturesque points 
of interest Visitors to Dixon will be amply 
paid by taking a trip on the river and spend- 
ing several days in its vicinity. The river 
provides ample tishing-grounds, and the fi.sli- 
erman will be abundantly repaid by angling 
in its waters. Game abounds, the golden 
plover, upland plover, the English or jack 
snipe, and woodcock being especially plenti- 





A^^_ 







THE iAKE AND TUE OAKWOOD HOTEL, GREEN LAKE, WISCONSIN. — REACHED BY THE CHICAGO i KOKl 

WESTERN RAILWAY. 



uriant forests, and what was then a paradise 
to the eye has become a fruitful garden of 
the world. Only a few years have passed 
since "Black Hawk" made these beautiful 
regions romantic with memories of Indian 
warfare, and gave to the " Rock River Yal 
ley" associations like those of '' the dark and 
bloody ground " of Kentucky. But these 
events have almost passed out of recollec- 
tion, and the traveler, as he whirls over the 
country in a palatial car, is no longer pointed 
to the spot where the red man last struggled 
against the white usurper for the home of his 



ful. Dixon is well supplied with first class 
hotels. 

At Clinton, one hundred and thirty-eight 
miles from Chicago.the Chicago & North-West- 
ern connects with the Chicago, Dubuque f & 
La Crosse Railway. This line runs along the 
west bank of the Mississippi River, and with- 
in a stone's throw of it most of the war. There 
is good shooting at many points along the 
line. At La Crosse, the Chicago, Dubuque & 
La Crosse Railway forms a junction with the 
Southern Minnesota Railroad. This last men- 
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gion of Minnesota, and gives easy access to the 
noted sbootinp: grounds in the vicinity of Ho- 
kah, Houston, Rushlbrd, Lanesboro, Spring 
Valley, Albert Lea, Alden, Wells, Delavan 
and "Winnebago. 

Canianche, located on the west bank of the 
Mississippi River, about one mile from the 
station, opposite the mouth of the Meredo- 
8ia River, of Illinois, is some one hundred 
and forty-three miles from Chicago. The 
last-meniioned river has large meadows or 



miles from Chicago, islocatted about four miles 
north of the Wapsipinicion River, a stream 
noted for its most excellent shooting. Ducks, 
geese, and brant abound on the river and in 
the bayous setting into it. Snipe, several va- 
rieties, woodcock, prairie chicken, and quail 
are found in countless numbers along its 
banks. The village has one hotel, kept by 
J. E. Mudgett, who charges $1.50 per day. 

Wheatland, one hundred and seventy-three 
miles from Chicago, is near the Wapsipinicion 




MAGONE FALLS, NEAR GREEN BAY WISCONSIN. — ACCESSIBLE BY THE CHICAGO & 
WESTERN RAILWAY. 



dry marshes (if they may be so named), ex- 
tending for many miles along either bank, 
and furnishing the best duck, geese, brant and 
crane shooting that can be found in the West. 
Thousands of these birds are shot here every 
season, and hundreds of sportsmen visit these 
grounds from all parts of the country. Ca- 
manche furnishes many of the " outfits " lor 
these hunting parties. The New Haven Ho- 
tel is an excellent place to stop at, kept by 
F. Anthony, who charges $2 per day. 

Low Moor, one hundred and forty-eight 



River. Many sportsmen resort there to shoot 
ducks, geese, snipe and woodcock, and to fish 
for the many varieties of fish with which the 
river is stocked. It has a fair hotel, The 
Wheatland House, by E. M. Tucker, accom- 
modating fifty guests, at $2 per day. 

Norway, two hundred and thirty-four miles 
from Chicago, is in the centre of fine prairie 
chicken shooting. 

Small game is plentiful around Blairstown, 
two hundred and forty-four miles from Chica- 
go. In Cedar River and in Prairie Creek, pike 



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and bass, weighing from two to twenty-five 
pounds, are caught. The Pennsylvania House, 
kept by H. & L. Gund, is the best hotel to 
stop at. 

In the forests surrounding the village of 
Belle Plaiiie are deer and wild turkeys, and 
on the plains prairie chickens, quail, wood- 
cock, snipe, and other game-birds. Ducks, 
geese, and brant are found in all the streams 
and bayous. Distant from the village one 
and a half miles, are Iowa River and Salt 



wal(,'r, affording excellent fishing for trout, 
bass, pike, pickerel, &c. There is fine shoot- 
ing over chickens, woodcock, snipe, and other 
game. 

At Marshalltown, two hundred and eighty- 
nine miles fnuu Chicago, the Central Ryilroj.d 
oflowa is crossed, giving direct connections lor 
Liscorab, Eldora, Mason City, Northwood, and 
other fine shooting centres north of Marshall- 
town, aud Grinnell, Oskaloosa, Ottumwa. and 
others points souih, where sport equally as 




MINERAL DOCK, ESCANABA, MICH. ACCESSIBLE BY THE CHICAGO & NORTHWEST!-: UN- 
RAILWAY. 



Creek, affording fine piscatorial sport. The 
variety of fish embrace pike, pickerel, black 
bass, &c. There are four hotels, ranging in 
price from $1 to $2 per day. Belle Plaine is 
two hundred and fifty-four miles from Chica- 
go- 

At Tama, two hundred and seventy miles 
from Chicago, the Toledo & North-Westeru 
Railway connects with the Chicago & North- 
Western, and runs three miles northwest to 
Toledo, the county seat of Tama county. The 
county is well wat-ered by the Iowa River, 
"Wolf Creek, and other streams of pure spring 



good can be enjoyed. The road runs from 
Northwood south to Albia, a distance of some 
two hundred miles. 

All kinds of feathered game abounds in the 
vicinity of State Centre, three liundred and 
three miles from Chicago. 

At Ames, three hundred and twenty-six 
miles from Chicago, connection is made wiili 
tlie Des Moines & Minnesota Railroad, running 
south from Ames thirty-seven miles, afl'ordii:g 
an opportunity to visit the shooting grounds 
along the line to Des Moines and the country 
beyond. 



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109 



Coon River, three miles soulli of Scranton, 
is a spleiidid tisluug-ground. The waters are 
well stocked with bass, pike, pickerel, <S:c. 
The whole adjoining country abounds with 
prairie chickens. Tlie Hunter House at Scran- 
ton, kept by Mr. F. Foster, is a good stopping- 
place. He feeds yon well at $2 a day. Scran- 
ton is three hundred and seventy-nine miles 
troni Uhicago. 

Glidden is in the midst of one of the best 
shooting regions of Iowa. Two considerable 



tions for the sportsmen who frequent the vil- 
lage. Glidden is three hundred and eighty- 
nine miles from Chicago. 

Wall Lake, a curiously walled body of wa- 
ter, is twelve miles northeast of Arcadia. 
The lake is fourteen miles in circumference, 
and is entirely surrounded with a wall of 
rock that appears as if placed there by hu- 
man lumds. "Whence, why, when or how 
these walls came, none know. "We make men- 
tion of this lake more as a curiosity of Nature 




GITCHK GUMKE, NEAR MARQUETTE, MICHIGAl 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



rivers run within five miles, along the banks 
of which are large tracts of timber, that are 
" full " of deer, wild turkeys, and other forest 
game, while the contiguous prairies abound 
with prairie chickens, snipe, woodcock, quail, 
and small game, and the rivers, creeks, and 
bayous are full of ducks, geese, and brant. 
It has been called the "Sportsman's Para- 
dise ; " and if numbers of birds, and great 
variety constitute such a place, it is not badlj' 
named. The village has two hotels — The 
Glidden House, by N. D. Thurman, and The 
Dedrick, by J. C. Dedrick. Both furnish ex- 
cellent quarters, and abundant accommoda- 



than any attractions it may have for the ang- 
ler. Arcadia is four hundred and six miles 
from Chicago. 

Missouri Valley Junction is in the centre 
of a fine shooting country. Geese, ducks, 
brant, ruffed grouse, prairie chickens, quail, 
snipe, plover and woodcock are especially 
abundant. The village is built on elevated 
ground, from which can be seen the " High- 
lands of Nebraska," and the surrounding 
country for miles around. Missouri Valley 
Junction is four hundred sixty- 
from Chicago. 



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ON THE IOWA JIII'LAND LINE. 

This line, a brancli of tlie Cliicago & Norlli- 
Western, extends from Clinton to Anamosa, 
seventj-oue miles. 

Goose Lake, some three miles from Char- 
lottee, is a great resort for sportsmen ; geese, 
ducKs, aud brant are very abundant. Deep 
River (tiere over fifteen feet deep) was stocked 
■with young California salmon in 1876, and they 
undoubtedly will soor. be heard from. Along 
the river are many Indian mounds and the re- 



in the town that furcishes good accommoda- 
tions at reasonable prices. 

Ananio, two liundred and ten miles from 
Chicago, is in Joi;es county, the county being 
noted as the headquarters of the Iowa Slate 
Piscicultural works, from which many thou- 
sands of young fish are being sent out to stock 
the streams and lakes of the State. The Wap- 
sipinicon River runs through the county, af- 
fording good fishing and duck-shootmg at sev- 
eral points along its course. 




CITY OF M A K y U 

Accessible by Chicago 

mains of ancient raining operations are found. 
The Sherman House, capable of accommoda- 
ting fifty guests, is a good stopping place. 
Charlotte is one liundred and sixty-three miles 
from Chicago. 

An excellent shooting country can be found 
at Baldwin, one hundred and eighty five miles 
from Chicago. Game of all kinds abound 
in the vicinity. The Maquoketa river is about 
three miles from the village, but we are not 
advised as to the fishing. There is one hotel 



ETTE, MICHIGAN. 
& Northwestern Railway. 

ON THE CHICAGO & LAKE GENEVA LINE, VIA 
FREEPOBT AND FOX RIVER BRANCHES. 

Five miles from the village of McHenry, Il- 
linois, is a chaiu of small lakes that extend 
eastward some thirty miles. These lakes are 
full of fish, and along their shores game is 
in great abundance McHenry is a pleasant 
town, built on high ground, on the banks of 
Fox River, and has three hotels, where good 
accommodations can be obtained at moderate 
charges. 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 



HI 



Richmond is situated on the banks of the 
Neipersink River, seventy-five miles from 
Chicago. Game is quite abundant in the vicin- 
ity, and three miles from the st:ition are the 
Twin Lakes, a famous fishing resort. There 
is a good hotel in the village. 

CHICAGO, GREEN BAY & LAKE SUPERIOR LINE. 

This line is formed of the "Wisconsin and 
Peninsular Divisions of the Chicago & North- 
Western Railway. The first runs from Chica- 



to the whole State of Wiscousin, and offer 
gateways the Summer resorts and shooting 
grounds that are justly becoming so well and 
favorably known, not only over our own land, 
but in " the lands beyond the sea." 

Palatine, twenty-six miles of Chicaeo, is on 
the borders of the " Lake Country " of North- 
ern Illinois. Lakes Zurich, Diamond, Grass, 
Honey, and Bangs are near the station, and 
furnish excellent fishing. Of these, Lake Zu- 
rich may be especially mentioned, as it is one 




WILLOW RIV ER FALLS, NEAR HUDSON, WISCONSIN. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



go, via Harvard, Janesville, Watertown, Fond 
du Lac, and Oshkosh, to Fort Howard (Green 
Bay); and the last from Green Bay, via Ocon- 
to, Menomonee, Escanaba, and Negaunee, to 
Ishpeming, within twelve miles of Marquette. 
The line is four hundred and twenty-one miles 
long, and, with its connection to Marquette, 
gives an all-rail-route from Chicago to the 
shores of Lake Superior. It passes through 
as great a variety of scenery as can be found 
on any line. Besides opening up the charm- 
ing country along its own line, the road cross- 
es and forms connections with a series of east 
and west roads, which together give entrance 



of the most beautiful bodies of fresh water to 
be found anywhere. 

Many of our Occidental friends, who swelter 
through the hot season, and who cannot afford 
to take a vacation, or spend much money in 
pleasure-seeking, will undoubtedly be glad to 
know that within a short distance of Chicago, 
and which may be reached in a brief space of 
time, at a comp;iratively nominal cost, there 
lies ono of the most beautiful spots that can 
be found anywhere in the Western country. 
Lake Zurich is named after one of the most 
splendid lakes in Switzerland, and when once 
seen, and its scenery and loveliness enjoyed, 



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ho oue would ever accuse him wlio named it 
with presumption. This magnificent place is 
located on the edge of Lake countv, four miles 
north by east from Barrington Station, on the 
Wisconsin Division of the Chicago k North- 
West-m Railway. At Bsrrington, stages are 
in wailing, on the arrival of trains, to convey 
passengers to the lake. The short stage ride 
i.'* even more delightful than by rail. The lake 
is belted all around with beautiful groves of 
limber, among the openings of which grass- 



joyed. There is one good hotel in the village, 
the host of which will accord to sportsmen a 
hearty welcome. Gary is thirty-eight miles 
from Ciiicago. 

Ridgefield is built on the edge of an exten- 
sive tract of timber, forty-six miles from Chi- 
cago, and splendid shooting and fishing can bo 
enjoyed in the vicinity. 

Tue "Badger State" is yearly becoming 
more widely and more favorably known to the 
sutnniiT tourist aud the seeker after rural plea- 




PULPIT ROCK, ON THE ST. CROIX, WISCONSIN' 



Accessible by Chicago & 

plats slope down to the pebbled beach, where j 

the pure crystal waters lave the shore. The | 

lake abounds with fish of various kinds, the . 

principal varieties being pickerel and black i 
bass, which are taken with a spear by torch- 

ight in the shallow parts of the lake, or with i 

rod and reel and by trolling. i 

Cary is one mile from Fox River, in which, ; 

at this point, most excellent fishing can be en- , 



Northwestern Railway. 

sures. Though comparatively a new State, it 
is yet old in many respects. A3 long ago as 
the middle of the seventeenth century, it was 
visited by French missionaries and traders, 
who took home with them glowing accounts 
of its splendid scenery, of the freshness of its 
odorous pine-clad hills; of its flashing, daz- 
zling, rapid-running streams, filled with many 
kinds of fish ; of its clear, deep, cold, p"ure, 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 113 



aud beautiful lakes — of which the State has 
many hundreds — and of its delightful, invigo- 
rating summer climate. The stories of these 
advantages were not lost on the beauty-loving 
French, and soon colonies were formed for the 
settlement of this beautiful " Neekoospara," 
as they had learned to call from the Indians 
the country now known as "Wisconsin. It may 
rli^htlv tlieu be inferred that the French were 



high and more than twenty feet thick. This, 
with another, near the Blue Mounds, a short 
disrance from Madison, resembles a man in a 
recumbent position. Another, also near Mad- 
ison, in Dane county, resembles a turtle ; one 
at the south end of "The Devil's Lake," in 
Sauk county, closely resembles an eagle ; and 
one near Cassville, in Grant county, on the 
Mississippi River, resembles the extinct Mas- 




PTRAMID ROCK, DE^'II/S LAKE, WISCONSIN. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



the first whites to make homes along the bays, 
lakes, and rivers of this well-favored land. 
Scattered all over the Slate can be found ob 
jects of interest to the lovers of the pictur- 
esque, and not a few to claim the attention of 
the antiquarian. Scattered over her undulat- 
ing plains are found earthworks, modeled af- 
ter the forms of men and animals, that are 
evidently the work of some other race than 
those who possessed the country at the lime 
the French arrived. At Aztalan, in Jefferson 
county, is an ancient fortification, 1,700 long 
and 900 feet wide, with walls five to six feet 



todon. The Blue Mounds, in Dane county, rise 
to 2,000 feet above the surrounding country, 
and are prominent landmarks in that prairie 
country. It shares with Minnesota the beau- 
tiful Lake Pepin, an expansion of the Missis- 
sippi River, mostly walled in by precipitous 
shores that rise in places to five hundred feet. 
Connected with almost every cliff or promon- 
tory along the shores of this beautiful lake are 
legends of the Indians who formerly had their 
homes there. Oliver Gibbs, Jr., has beauti- 
fully described it in his incomparable " Lake 
Pepin Fish-Chowder." "If I write," he says, 



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THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURISrS GUIDE. 



" as I feel about the Lake Pepin couutry, I 
fihall be liable to present a rose-colored view. 
This is partly because Lake City happens now 
to be my home, where my children play and 
gather agates along the pebbly shores of Lake 
Pepin ; and partly because the pure climate, 
wild scenery, sky-tinted waters, fertile lands, 
and splendid fishing and hunting of all that 
Upper Mississippi country, have preserved the 
glad impression in my mind which the first 
view of the country gave in the autumn of 
1855, when, after a night's voyage up the riv- 



lar pitch of over fifty feei., and a general de- 
scent of one hundred and fifty feet in a mile 
and a half, besides many other rapids, where 
the river tosses and dashes through narrow 
and tortorous defiles. Chippewa Falls and Big 
Bull Falls miglit also be noted. Along the 
Wisconsin River are many grand and pictur- 
esque views ; in Richland county, the banks of 
the river rise to a height of 200 to 250 feet, 
and in Sauk county it passes through narrow 
gorges viiere the banks rise to 500 and 600 
feet elevatita. Grandfather Bull Falls, tie 




THE FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY, MINNESOTA, 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



er, 1 found myself early of an Indian-summer 
morning standing upon one of the bluffs over- 
looking the town which was to be my first 
home in the West. A land of incomparable 
beauty and attractiveness it has been to me 
ever since." Along the rivers of this State are 
found many beautiful falls, rivaling those of 
older States. In the St. Louis River are " The 
Dalles," which have a descent of three hun- 
dred and twenty feet. The Dalles of the St. 
Croix are also well known. Quinnessec Falls, 
ou the Menomonee River, have a perpendicu- 



greatest rapids of the Wisconsin River, are in 
north latitude 45, and are a series of cascades 
breaking through a ridge 150 feet perpendicu- 
lar in height, for nearly two miles in distance ; 
on the same river, near latitude 44, is Peten- 
well Peak, an oval mass of rock, 900 feet long 
by 300 wide and 200 high, from which com- 
manding views can be obtained. Some seventy 
feet of the upper portion of this rock is cut 
and split into fantastic shapes, many of the 
fragments resembling castles, towers, and tur- 
rets. A few miles from this rock is Fortifica- 



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115 



tion Rock, which rises perpendicularly several 
hundred feet. At The Dalles, this river is 
cotDpressed for five or six miles between red 
sandstone blufls, averaging over one hundred 
feet in height. The principal lakes are Lake 
Winnebago, in the southeastern portion of the 
State, which is about thirty miles long by ten 
wide, and communicates with Green Bay (an 
arm of Lake Michigan) through Pox or Nee- 



and steamers, and on the shores of several are 
club houses and summer hotels. 

Koshkonong Lake is one mile from the vil- 
lage of Koshkonong, and is six miles wide and 
nine miles long. It is well slocked with black 
bass, pickerel, pike, yellow and silver perch, 
&c. Geese, ducks, brant, and swans are un- 
usually plentiful in their season. Of ducks, the 
varieties consist of canvas backs, red-heads, 




THE BUTTES," NEAR WINONA, MINNESOTA. 
Accessible from Chicago via Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



nah River — Hereon Lake, Devil's Lake, Lake 
Koshkonong, Lake Geneva, Lake Zurich, and 
the four lakes around Madison ; these are the 
larger lakes of this lake-studed State. Along 
nearly all the rivers of the State, and at their 
" heads,'' hundreds of little lakes are found, 
1 ke gems gliitering in the sunshine. In Wal- 
worth county alone twenty-four lakes can be 
mentioned, among which are Lake Geneva, 
Crooked, Army, Potter's, Booth, Lulu, Como, 
Turtle, Whitewater, Bass, Holdeu's, Middle, 
Grove, Mill, Otter, and Pleasant, ranging from 
one-half mile wide and one mile long to three 
or four miles wide to ten or twelve miles loiig. 
All are stocked with fish, and on several of 
them are various water crafts, including yachts 



mallards, wora, black-heads, and spike-tails. 
Wild celery grows along the margins of the 
lake in great abundance, and for canvap-back 
duck-shooting is not excelled by even ChesH- 
peake Bay. On the banks of the lake is the 
Koshkonong House, that will accommodate 
100 guests; the Bingham, 30; Koshkonong 
Club House, 70. Koshkonong is one hundred 
four miles from Chicago. 

Fort Atkinson, one hundred and ten miles 
from Chicago, is situated on both sides of 
Rock River, in Jefferson county. Rock Lake, 
Lake Mills, Ripley, Cambridge, and Rose lakes 
are near, and are all noted for their excellent 
shooting grounds, canvas-back ducks especial- 
ly being abundant on all of them. The Grand 



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THE SPORTSMAJPS AND TOURIST'S GUIDE. 



Mountain House, of which Mr. J. H. Davis is 
proprietor, is capable of accommodating fifty 
guests. The table is well supplied with all the 
luxuries, the beds good, the rooms airy, and 
the charges $2 a day. Tiiere are several min- 
eral springs uear the city, two of which are 
especially noted for the cures effected by their 
waters. 

There are sonse excclleut shooting-grounds 



one mile of the lake. The scenery that sur- V 
rounds the city is worthy of mention. A ledge 
of limestone rock, elevated some 200 feet and 
over above the level of the prairie, presenting, 
in many cases, perpendicular precipices 75 to 
100 feet high, borders the eastern and south- 
ern margins of the prairie on which the city 
ifl buit; from the base of this ledge hundreds 
of springs of cool, rippling water gush out. 




CASTLE ROCK, SPARTA, WISCONSIN. 



Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



in the vicinity of Burnett Junction, one hun- 
dred and fifty-two miles from Chicago. All 
kinds of wild fowl — ducks, geese, brant, and 
swans— are found in countless numbers in Ff a- 
son. Accommodations can be had at either of 
the two hotels in the village. 

Chester, one hundred and sixty miles from 
Chicago, is in close proximity to the Hoiicon 
marshes, noted for their splendid duck-shoot- 
ing. There is one good hotel in the village, 
terms about $1 a day. 

Fond du Lac is located at the southern end 
of Lake Winnebago, one hundred and seventy- 
six miles from Chicago. It is built upon a 
prairie on the banks of Fox River, and within 



and meander over the gentle slopes of the 
prairie in narrow channels to the lake. "West- 
ward the ground gradually rises, alternating 
with prairie and timber for 25 miles. The city 
is noted as being very healthy, owing proba- 
bly to its excellent supply of water, there be- 
ing within the city limits over 300 artesian 
wells, out of which is constantly flowing, from 
the depth of GO to 400 feet, the purest water. 
Lake Winnebago is 35 miles long by 12 broad 
— the largest lake wholly witliin any one State 
in the Union — and is noted for the excellent 
wild-fowl shooting. Its waters are furnished 
with a full supply of fish, and ladies and gen- 
tlemen can find ample piscatorial recreation. 



nUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 



Ill 



The borders of Lake Winnebago furnish beau- 
tiful landscape views, and gorgeous scenery. 
Besides, Fond du Lac is surrounded with plea- 
sant places of resort. Lake du Neveu, a beau- 
tiful sheet of water, is romanlicallj' situated 
about three miles south-east of the city, and 
contains many varieties of fish. Eastward is 
Elkhart Lake, already famous for its natural 
beauties and its excellent duck-shooting and 
splendid fishing. The Patty House can accom- 



Lac Raihoad. Tweuty-six miles from Fond 
Lac on this road the traveler arrives at 

Dartford, which is about half a mile from 
the ever-beauliful and ever-attractive Grecu 
Lake. The scenery around Dartford is unri- 
valled in variety and beauty. G-roves of pri- 
meval grandeur, far-stretching prairies and ex- 
tensive lake views greet the eye from every 
point. The grounds around the lake have been 
terraced, furnished with swings, promenades. 




THE FALLS OF MINNEOPA, MINNESOTA 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



modate 250 guests, and the American House 
100. These hotels are first-class in every re- 
spect, and the tables are bountifully supplied 
with every luxury money can procure. 

At Fond du Lac, the Chicago ANorth-Wrst- 
ern connects with the Sheboygan & Fond du 



and otherwise ornamented, to render them 
pleasant and attractive. The lake averages a 
length of fifteen miles and a width of three 
miles. Its banks vary from beautiful grassy 
slopes to high rocky cliffs, bordered with ever- 
green, affording tho greatest diversity of phy- 



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THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURISrS GUIDE. 



sical character, and presenting unlimited natu- 
ral advantages for pleasing and romantic ram- 
bles. Its waters are very pure, and so trans- 
parent that their pebbly bed may be seen at a 
depth of from twenty to thirty-five feet A 
great variety and abundance of fish abound in 
this beautiful sheet of water, and good fishing- 
boats and tackle for the lovers of ihe sport, 
and excellent boats for those fond of sailing, 
are furnished for the accommodation of visi- 
tors. It IS one of the most healthy locations 



miles from Chicago, is situated at the mouth 
of the Upper Fox River, on the western shoie 
of Lake "Winnebago — a location of great natu- 
ral beauty, overlooking the picturesque lake 
and river scenery of the vicinity. The site of 
Oshkosh IS a tract with an elevation of from 
twelve to twenty feet above the level of the 
lake, and the city extends for a distance of 
nearly three miles from the shore of Lake 
Winnebago up Fox River to Lake Buttes des 
Moris, occupying the tract between the two 




JI I N N E P A FALLS, I X THE WINTER 
Accessible by Chicago & Nortliwestern Railway. 



upon the continent, shut away from ihe city 
where contagion spreads its blight and disease 
spends its fury. One writer extols the splen- 
did fishing and superb duck-shooting, another 
goes into raptures over the delicious Havor of 
the perch, pickerel, and black bass, another 
calls it the Lake George of "Wisconsin, and 
another is at a loss for words to fitly describe 
the two principal hotels — The Oakwood and 
The Sherwood Forrest. They are furnished in 
first-class style, and their tables unsurpassed 
by those of the best hotels in the country. 
Besides these, there are several other excel- 
lent hotels, that will accommoaate from 75 to 
100 guests. 
Oshkost, some one hundred and ninety-four 



lakes. The surface of the surrounding coun- 
try is undulating prairie and openings, with its 
rivers and lakes skirted with limber. Tho 
scenery of this combined woodland, prairie, 
lakes, and rivers is surpassing beautiful, dis- 
closing picturesque rivers, stretching away in 
the far distance like the varying pictures of a 
lovely panorama. "Wild game is abundant in 
the vicinity, and is composed of blue and green 
winged teal, mallard, wood-duck, and all the 
difl'erent varieties of wild-fowl, snipe, wood- 
cock, quail, and prairie chickens. The waters 
abound in black and white bass and other fish, 
and brook trout are plentiful in streams with- 
in a day's travel. As a delightful summer re- 
sort and watering-place, Oshkosh possesses a 



EUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 119 



rare combination of natural features. The cli- 
mate is not surpassed for healthhilness; the 
air is pure and dry, and invigorating breezes 
from the lake temper the heats of summer; 
the scenery is lovely ; the lake a most magni- 
ficent sheet of water, witli beautiful shores, 
and larbors that are accessible in every direc- 
tion, tiius affording the best of yachting facili- 
ties. 01 its hotels, The Beck with, The Revere, 
The Tremont, The International, and The Sey- 
mou r.iiik high. When all these rare attrac- 



maple grove of full fifty acres. The water of 
these springs, which is crystal-clear, pours 
from the hillside near the stream, and has been 
carried into reservoirs, about 14 feet above 
tiie level of the river, the amount of the supply 
being quite 6,000 gallons per day. As stated by 
an analytical chemist, "Telulah Spring water 
contains the same salts in about the same pro- 
portions as the Bethesda," and like that cek- 
brated spring, in curative qualities is unsur- 
passed, having peculiar efficacy in Brighi'a 





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NEAR EVANSTON, ILLINOIS. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northweatem Railway. 



tion are combined with the e.xcellent hunting 
and fishing, it renders Oshkosh worthy the at- 
tention of either sportsman or tourist. 

Wisconsin can boast no more charming sum- 
mer resort than the pretty little city of Apple- 
ton, bathed by a broad and rapid running riv- 
er, and wild ravines and brilliant forest. The 
well-known Telulah Springs are at the eastern 
extremity of the city, located in a charming 
point on the brink of the beautiful river, and 
at the foot of a magnificent natural beech and 



disease, diabetes, all kidney affections, dropsy, 
etc. This spring, together with Bethesda, 
holds high rank even in a State which flows 
with fountains, and is filled with mineral and 
medicinal waters. The spring lies near the 
Grand Chute rapids, formed by the swift de- 
cline in the river bed of 50 feet within a mile, 
and itssurroundings are lovely and remarkable. 
The formation of the valley in which it is found 
is curious, and its story of the greatest interest. 
Some of the remarkable " burial mounds" of 



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the State are witljin the distance of a pleasant 
ride, and near these are several of the rcck- 
traced pictures and inscription of a pie-historic 
race. The river abounds in fish, the wild rice 
tracts are filled with ducks, the fields and 
woods with much small game, and the dis- 
tance is two hundred and fourteen miles north 
of Chicago. 

Xeenah is located at the outlet of Lake 
Wiunebago, two hundred and seven miles 
from Chicago. No locality can ofi"er belter 
facilities for fishing and shooting than can be 
found in this vicinity. 

At West ilenasha, two hundred and nine 



of the American, will provide lor your crea- 
ture comfort — where clean beds will afford 
refreshing slumbers and a bounteous table of 
every luxury will appease the appetite of the 
most ravenous sportsman that ever pulled trig- 
ger or waded a trout stream. 

Green Ba\-, two hundred and forty-two miles 
from Chicago, is almost without a rival in Wis- 
consin in the inducements it ofters to summer 
tourists, or to those who desire a cool and 
pleasant retreat from the heat and malaria of 
the South. For amuseraeuts, there are mag- 
nificent drives extending in every direciiou 
from the city, with sylvan, picturesque scenery, 




MILWAUKEE PREVIOUS TO 1835, 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



miles from Chicago, the Chicago & North- 
western connects with the Wisconsin Central 
Railroad, elsewhere described. 

Splendid shooting and fishing grounds are 
easily accessible from Wrightstown. two hun- 
dred and twenty-six miles from Chicago. 
Deer and bear are not scarce, while every va- 
riety of feathered game — partridges, pheas- 
ants, woodcock, snipe, ducks, geese, &c. — are 
there in ample numbers. Put yourself under 
the guidance of Otto Guttrer, a noted hunter. 
who has his domicil at Whrightstown, and he 
will take pleasure in putting your ou the track 
of a deer or where you may be able to have a 
lively " dispute " with Mr. Bruin, or shoot fea- 
thered game until your arms tire. Mine host 



beautiful cascades, and everything to please 
the eye. The Fox river is here about 1 50 feet 
wide, and 25 to 30 feet in depth, spanned by 
three handsome carriage and foot bridges, free 
to all. The river gradually expands out into 
Green Bay, a beautiful sheet of water, 120 
miles long, with an average width of 15 miles; 
this gives unexcelled advantages for yacht 
ing, an amusement much indulged in by the 
citizens and visitors. Steam yachts also ply 
between the city and points of iuterest in the 
neighborhood. The bay has agently shelving, 
gravelly or sandy beach, and bathing in tlie 
pure, crystal waters is a favorite pastime. 
There are also excellent fishing grounds and 
plenty of fish, with good hunting in its season 



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121 



There are three large, first-class hotels in the 
city, viz: The Beaumont House, terms, $3 per 
day and $17.50 per week; Cook's Hotel. $2 
per day and $8.50 to $12 per week ; and The 
First National Hotel, $2 per day and $9 to 
$12 per week. 

The Green Bay & Minnesota Railroad, run- 
ning, as it does, from Green Bay westwardly 
across the State of Wisconsin to the city of 
Winona, on the Mississippi, in Minnesota, has 
opened up a fine game district long destitute 
of much-needed railroad facilities. Much of 
the distance traversed by this line is through 
a heavily-timbered country, abounding in deer. 



is in the midst of an excellent shooting section, 
abounding in all kinds of game. It is two hun- 
dred and sixty-six miles of Chicago. 

Peshtigo is on Peshtigo River, seven miles 
from its mouth. Thunder Lake, River Medi- 
cine, Gravel and Trout Lakes are near and full 
of fish. Brook trout are caught in large num- 
bers in many of the streams in the vicinity. 
Deer, bear, ducks, Ac. abundant. It is two 
hundred and eighty-four miles from Chicago. 

Marinette, two hundred ninety-one miles 
from Chicago, is surrounded by trout streams, 
where the fisherman's creel can be filled in a 
few hours' angling. 




LAKE DELLS, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



bear, and every variety of small game. Along 
the line (or a short distance from it) are many 
splendid trout streams, all teeming with brook 
trout. There are no better hunting and fish- 
ing grounds this side of the Rocky Mountains 
than can be reached within a day's ride of 
Green Bay. Seymour, only some seventeen 
miles from Green Bay, is a splendid locality 
for deer, bear, and small game. It has 
two excellent hotels, where transient guests 
will be well cared for at $1.50 a day. Arcadia 
is 192 miles from Green Bay, located on the 
Trempealeau River, and in the vicinity of 
many splendid trout streams, where a fine 
creel of brook trout can easily be taken. 
West Pensaukee, five miles from Pensaukee, 



Escanaba, three hundred and fifty- seven 
miles from Chicago, is without doubt one of 
the pleasantest Summer resorts in the whole 
West. It is most delightfully situated at the 
head of Little Bay Des Noques, at the North 
end of Green Bay. The water of the bay, clear 
as crysti), washes the streets of the city on two 
sides, while the Escanaba river forms the third, 
and the aromatic " piney woods" close well 
down on the other side. Good hotels offer 
quiet and comfortble quarters for tourists who 
may wish to spend a few days or weeks here 
to enjoy the excellent fishing, boating, and 
bathing. White Fish Bay, in this vicinity, 
offers rare sport for fishermen, and every lit- 
tle stream — and they are numerous — is almost 



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alive with the ever beautiful speckled brook 
trout. From Escanaba excursions are fitted 
out in various directions. Those not piscatori- 
ally inclined, take to the woods, and find bear 
and deer in abundance, to say nothing of the 
ducks, geese, brants, partridges, and smaller 
feathered game. Tlie hotel accommodations 
are unsurpassed. Tiie Tilden House is the 
largest, and first-cl:;S8 in all its np[.ioinlments. 
It is situated immediately on the bay shore, 
surrounded bv beautiful orroves nii'l parks, laid 



pure and invigorating, imparting health and 
infusing new life to the tired toiler, Escanaba 
offers unsurpassed advantages. 

The country beyond Escanaba is not very 
inviting, except to sportsmen ; but to the an- 
gler or hunter it lends a charm tliat few other 
sections can equal. It contains many magni- 
ficent trout streams, and deer, bear, and other 
game, and fur-bearing animals are found in 
the greatest abundance. It is where the fish- 
erman, the hunter, or the trapper should go. 




off in flower beds, and beautiful serpentine 
■walks and carriage drives. It is well supplied 
with boats, for either rowing, sailing, or fish- 
ing, and every variety of fishing tackle. Pro- 
fessional and trustworthy guides are in readi- 
ness to convey parties to either the woods or 
the trout streams. The Luddington House has 
accommodations for 100 guests. The climate 
of Escanaba is unsurpassed. During the hot- 
test of the summer months the thermometer 



ELlvHAKl' LAKE, WISCONSIN. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 

Negaunee, four hundred and ninety miles 
from Chicago, does not present an inviting ap- 
pearance to the fashionable visitor or to the 
" kid glove " tourist; but those wiio would 
view Nature in all her native wildness, it will 
amply repay a visit. The city is located in a 
narrow valley, surrounded by higli and broken 
hills, and is 1,400 feet above Marquette, about 
thirteen miles distant. It is well supplied with 
first-class hotels, and in the vicinity are many 



ranges at about 80 degrees, averaging G5 de- romantic and picturesque spots well worth h 



grees during the entire summer season. To 
sportsmen in search of splendid hunting and 
fishing grounds ; the naturalist, in quest of the 
curious and wonderful in Nature ; the business 
man, seeking quiet and rest, where the air is 



visiting. Game of every description is very 
abundant, and brook trout more than plentiful, ^i 
Escanaba River, Little Lake, Cascade, Lake || 
Michigammi, and Menomouee River, are with- >■ 
in easy distances. A visit to them will reward Ij 



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either tislierman or tourist. Of all of the gems 
of tliis wild country, yon must not fail to see 
Teal Lake, as beautiful a body of water as eye 
ever looked upon. On the farther side of the 
lake, and to the left may be seen a house. Its' 
hii-tiry is not unromantic. Many years ago, 
an Eastern gentleman, with an only daughter 
about 20 years of age, settled at Chicago. The 
moi^t air from Michigan did not agree with the 
lady, and she daily faded. An Indian chief, 



Friendly Indians " packed " tlie cargo of tlie 
vessel over almost pathless wilds, thirteen 
miles to where the ruins are yet seen, and in 
course of time ihe house was built, furnished 
and occupied by the invalid and her father. A 
happy year was passed ; bloom again came 1o 
the wan cheek and fire came to the dimmed 
eye ; but, alas, only to mock the hopes of the 
doting parent. With the coloring of the leaves 
the next Fall, the father bore the body of his 




VIEW OF SEA CLIFF HOUSE AND SEAL ROCKS, OFF SAN FRANCISCO. 



Accessible by Chicago & 
at Fort Dearborn, told the father of the pure, 
dry air of the hills of the great northern lake, 
and drew no mean picture of the country about 
Xegauuee and Teal Lake, and urged that the 
diuighter should be taken there. Anxious to 
adopt any means that seemed to promise hope 
to the almost dying girl, the lumber for a 
house was prepared,. and with an ample sup- 
ply of handsome, costly furniture, was placed 
on a vessel cliartered to run as near Teal Lake 
as possible. In due time this vessel reached 
tlie port where Marquette has since been built. 



Northwestern Raihvay. 

dead child to his far-off Eastern home, and 
abandoned house, furniture and all. The In- 
dians, with superstitions dread, kept away 
fio.n tlie place, and everything remained as 
the owner had left it until a few years ago, 
wlien the white man prospected the couniry. 
and settled here to rob the hills of their min- 
eral treasure. Having none of the scruples of 
the untaught savage, he did not respect the 
home of the dead girl, and soon stripped it of 
its contents, so that to-day the house alone is 
left. It stands there, a raouument to the now 



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dead and almost forgotten father, who in its 
building and furnishingexpended over $80, 000. 
The place is known as " The White Pouse." 

Marquette, four hundred and thirty-five 
miles from Chicago, is well supplied with excel- 
lent hotels and large Summer boarding-houses 
where comfortible, well furnisiied rooms and 
unexcelled board can be procured at very rea- 
sonable prices. The city is beautifully located 



For the invalid or for the resident of our South- 
ern or Eastern States, Marquette offers many 
inducements as a Summer resort. Its air is 
pure and clear, its days are not hot, its nights 
pleasantly cool, and yet not cold, and its 
healtlifulness unquestioned. From Marquette 
you can take steamer for Sault St. Marie, for 
Isle Royal, St. Ignace Island, Fort William, or 
any point on the north shore of Lake Superior. 




IN THE YOSEMITE. 



Accessible by Chicago & 

on the Bay of Marquette, which is a deep in- 
dentation of the shores of the lake. On the 
bay are unequalled facilities for boating, and 
its waters are filled with gamey fish, which 
seem eager to reward the angler, as they are 
caught in great abundance with but little labor. 
A few miles out in the bay are several large 
islands covered with virgin forests. These 
i-*lands are favorite resorts for picnic parties, 
that reacji them by sail boats, by steamer, or 
by small row boats, of which any number 
may be hired at Marquette at almost any time. 



Northwestern Railway. 

On that shore you will find Nature in all her 
wildness. The white man's arts and ways 
have not yet penetrated its wilds, and the In- 
dian with his peculiar ways can be found 
without seeking far. This Indian is not the 
savage of the plains or mountains, but he who 
has been tamed by the kindly teachings of the 
patient Catholic missionary, who has been a 
dweller in the tents of the uncultivated child 
of the forest for generations, and who has lived 
there really and truly for the Indian's good, 
and not for the white man's aggrandizement, 



HUNTIXG AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 125 



as is too often the case with the so-called friend 
of the Indian. No finer trout fishing is to be 
found anywhere on the broad earth that can 
be had on the north shore of this great inland 
ocean. Speckled trout, weighing from five to 
twelve pounds, are often caught by the few 
adventurous spirit who have for several years 
sought these favored shores. The rivers Ni- 
pigou and Michapacoton are the best known 



out of it. Marquette, as a watering place, 
cannot well be excelled. Romantic scenery 
surrounding one on every side, a cool, bracing 
atmosphere, which to those who may be suffer- 
ing from the heat of a summer sun, is, as it 
were, the "balm of Gilead." In the fore- 
ground a beautiful bay spreads away to the 
distant shore (which is often compared to the 
bay of Venice), whose silvery waters often lie 




IN THE YOSEMITE. 
Aceessible by Ohicago & Northwestern Railway. 



of the trout streams of the north shore. Guides 
to these streams can be easily hired at Mar- 
quette, and fishing parties be fitted out with 
little expense or labor. And here we mighv 
drop a hint that may be useful to the stranger: 
Take an Indian for your guide if you go to the 
nortli shore to fish ; see that you get one that 
does not love " fire water," and one that is 
not afraid to work. Plenty of lazy white men 
will tender their services, and boast of their 
knowledge and skill, but trust them not. They 
are utterly worthless, either in your boat or 



like an immense mirror beneath the rays of 
the setting sun, and when dotted with vessels 
and steamers, presents a scene worthy the 
pencil of an artist. Salmon trout abound in 
its waters, and are often taken by trolling, 
weighing from five to twenty-five pounds 
each. One person not unfrequently captures 
from one to twenty fish per day, in the season. 
There are a number of streams in the viciuity, 
where the speckled beauties are awaiting the 
fly of the angler. Dead, Chocolay, Little and 
Garlic rivers are near by, and are noted trout 



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(brook) streams. TO the invalid or tourist, 
iieedine: a few weeks' recrealioti, we recom- 
mend them by all means to seek the pure air 
and splendid climate in and around the fair 
city of Marquette. Sailinof over the broad, 
clear waters of Lake Superior, trolling for tlie 
larg:e thirty-pound lake fish, beating the moun- 
tain streams for speckled trout, visiting the 
rolling mills, furnaces, mines and other objects 
of interest, will serve to pass away several 
weeks in an amusing and profitable manner. 
Tiie hotels here are well kept, very comfor- 



sight of the shores of the lake, which are in 
many places mountainous, and clothed in the 
verdure of the pine, hemlock, spruce, fir, and 
other evergreen trees. A more delightful trip 
for the hot days of summer cannot be bad 
within the bounds of the American continent. 
The steamers are large, staunch, finely equip- 
ped, and commanded by officers whose su- 
periors in courtesy and kindness cannot be 
found anywhere. The best hotels at Marquette 
are The Cozzens, Alfred Cozzens, proprietor — 
it can accommodate 150 guests for the summer 



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TURKEY RIVER BLUFF. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



table and charges reasonable. The steamers 
leave Marquette in the morning, and pass by 
the Huron Islands, Manitou Island, Keweenaw 
Point, past Fort William, Eagle Harbor, Eagle 
River, Ontonage, the Pewabic Copper Mines, 
Copper Harbor, Ashland, Bayfield, and so up 
to Fond du Lac and Duluth. We have an 
attractive trip, on magnificent boats, over the 
largest lake in the world. Lake Superior is 
noted tor its clear, cold water (it being so clear 
that from the deck of the steamer you can plain- 
ly see the great lake trout playing in the water 
forty feet below the surface) ; you pass within 



— this house has a number of summer cottages . 
fitted tip for the use of guests, who may prefer { 
them totheroomsofthehoiel — and The North- ! 
western Hotel, Farnham & Lyons, proprietors. , 
This house is situated close to the water of i 
the bay, and is a charming location for a sum- 
mer home. Mesdames Williams and Sherman J 
keep e.xcellent boarding houses. The rates • 
for private board range from $6 to $12 per ' 
week. A daily line of Pullman Palace cars ^ 
is run between Cliicago and Marquette, by { 
the Chicago & North- Western Railway Com- « 
pany. 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 127 



L'Anse, sixty-three miles from Marquette, 
in Baragey county, situated ou Keweenaw- 
Bay, at present the western terminus of the 
Marquette, Houojhion & Ontonagon Railroad. 
Ou Fall River and L'Anse Bay is to be found. 
as fine brook and salmou trout and wliile-fish 
fishing as there is in the country. The steam- 
boat trip from L'Anse to Portage Lake occu- 
pies about three hours, the steamer passing 
through the beautiful sheet of water known- as 
Keweenaw Bay and the picturesque Portage 
river and lake, all of which are renowned for 



miles in length, extending nearly across Ke- 
weenaw Point to within two miles of Lake 
Superior. 

ON THE MADISON DIVISION. 

Excellent fishing can be had on Rock River 
at Beloit, ninety-one miles from Chicago. The 
village has ample hotel accommodations and 
private boarding-houses. 

Lake Waulusa, two and a half miles from 
Syene, affords splendid fishing. Syene is one 
hundred and thirty-three miles from Chicago 
No hotels. 



^ ■m<s. }t 




their scenic effects. During tlie season of navi- 
gation, all points of interest on Lake Superior 
can be reached from Portage Lake, it being the 
eastern and southern terminal point for a line of 
steamers, calling at all the localities named. 
The climate of Portage lake in the summer is 
one of the most delicious on the American con- 
tinent, and, aside from its great attraction as 
the site of the largest coppery industry in the 
world, the tourist or pleasure seeker will find- 
much to interest in studying the scenery on 
either side of the lake. The section also affords 
some excellent trout streams. Portage Lake 
is an irregular body of water, about twenty 



HANGING, ROCK CHICAGO. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 

Madison is a centr 



of a circle, whose natur- 
al beauties compass all that is charming to the 
eye, grateful to the senses, pleasing to the im- 
agination, and which, from their variety and 
perfection, never grow tedious or tiresome to 
the spectator. The city is pleasantly situated 
on an isthmus about three-fourths of a mile 
wide, between lakes Mendota and Monona, in 
the centre of a broad valley, surrounded by 
heights from which it can be seen at a dis- 
tance of several miles. Lake Mendota lies 
northwest of the city, is six miles long and 
four wide, with clean gravelly shores, and a 
depth sufficient for navigation by steamboats. 



THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURIST'S GUIDE. 



Lake Monona is soraewliat smaller. A great 
many efforts have been made to depict the 
beauties of the location ; but no words can 
convey an adequate idea of what is, indeed, in- 
describable. Four lakes lie embosomed like 
gems, shining in the midst of groves of forest 
trees, while the gentle swells of the prairies, 
dotted over by fields and farms, lend a charm 
to the view which words cannot depict. The 
lakes abound in choice fish— black bass, pike, 
pickerel, perch, and wliiteflsh. Ladies and 
gentlemen make it a business to go out troll- 



Prominent among the resorts of the North- 
west stands the Devil's Lake, in Sauk county, 
Wisconsin, thirty-miles north of Madison. The 
bluffs of the Wisconsin, at the point where the 
Baraboo River embouches into the valley, are 
six hundred feet in height. In the midst of 
this enormous rocky stratum is a deep fissure 
or gorge, depressed over four hundred feet 
from the surface, hemmed in by mighty preci- 
pices, which constitute theiasin of a body of 
water about a mile and a half in length by a 
half mile in breadth, known as Devil's Lake 




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AGNES PARK, NEAR HILL CITY, IN THE BLACK HILLS, DAKOTA. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



ing for fish. They sit in the boat and row 
about gently, permitting the line to drag after, 
with the metallic spoon whirling in the clear 
water. The principal hotels are the Park 
House, the Vilas House, and the Lake Side 
House. The hotel propi^ietors all vie to excel 
each other in providing entertainments for 
their guests. Madison is one hundred and 
thirty-eight miles from Chicago. 

There is good shooting to be had all around 
Meudota, one hundred and forty-three miles 
from Chicago. 



The level of the water is one hundred and 
ninety feet above the Wisconsin River, and it 
is supposed that the bottom reaches below that 
of the river. The lake is one of the most won- 
derful romantic spots in existence, and nothing 
to compare with it is to be seen this side of 
the Rocky Mountains. It abounds in fish. 
It has no visible inlet or outlet, and one can 
see through the water like quartz- crystal of 
the clearest sort to the depth of fifty feet, and 
over. The lake is one hundred and seventy- 
two miles from Chicago. 



EUhTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 129 



The country surrounding Wonovvoc, two 
hundred and five miles from Chicago, is bro- 
ken and covered ■with timber, and offers excel- 
lent hunting to the sportsman. Deer are abun- 
dant, and bears are not unfrequenily shot, 

THE WEST WISCONSIN RAILWAY. 

This line connects at Blroy, and forms the 
northern end of the through line we are de- 
scribing, though it is entirely distinct from 
the Chicago & North-Western. Through this 
line direct connection is had with 



St. Croix River to this point. Twelve miles 
southeast is Kinnickinnick River, yeilding the 
finest of brook trout, not only in the main 
stream, but on the north and south forks. 
Tiffany Creek also abounds with brook trout. 
Bass Lake, eight miles northest, furnishes ex- 
cellent bass-fishing. Four miles from the sta- 
tion is Willow River, with its beautiful falls, 
whicli rival those of Minnehaha. Taylor's 
Falls, at the liead of the Dalles, and St. Croix 
Falls, are worth visiting. Game abounds in 
the woods and prairies surrounding Hudson, 




Custer's park, near custer city in the black hills of Dakota. 

Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Kailway. 



Eau Claire, three hundred and twenty miles 
from Chicago. It is built at the confluence of 
the Chippewa and Eau Claire Rivers, in a sec- 
tion where there is good hunting and fishing. 
A. noted place, and one well worth the tour- 
ist's attention, is " The Dalles," easily reached 
from Eau Claire. A railroad also runs from 
the village to Chippewa Falls, twelve miles 
distant, and which are worth a day's travel to 
view by moonlight. 

Hudson is located on Lake St. Croix, and 
the largest Mississippi steamers ascend the 



and can always be had in sufficient quantities 
to please and repay the most exacting sports- 
man. Hudson is three hundred and eighty 
miles from Chicago. 

Four hundred and nine miles from Chicago 
and St. Paul is reached. There are numerous 
resorts in and within a few miles of St. Paul 
and Minneapolis, and easy of access. Numer- 
ous lakes are scattered in chains, or groups, or 
gems, all over the State, and afford excellent 
duck-shooting and fishing Across (or over) 
the St. Paul k Sioux City Railway track, and 



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THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURIST'S GUIDE. 



Fort Snelliug appears in full view — located 
\ipon a commanding eminence at the couflu- 
ence of the Minnesota (St. Peter) rivers. The 
scenery at this point is exceed iii[,'ly romantic 
and picturesque. There are points of interest 
about St. Paul that are worth visiting, but too 
numerous to mention in detail. A short dis- 
tance above Meeker's Island, close by the 
roadside, a small stream, from the springs and 
lakes of the back country, leaps from the lime- 
Htoue rock about forty feet to the bed of the 
Mississippi. It is known as '• Winter Queen," 
and is a most beautiful, sparkling cascade. 



umns of ice ; in Summer a perpetual rainbow 
is seen. It is surrounded by pleasing and at- 
tractive scenery on all sides, and its fall cre- 
ates a cheerful music. On from Minnehaha, 
in view of one of the most magnificent natural 
panor^imas ever beheld in any country, and 
soon in sight and hearing of the roaring and 
foaming cataract, the Falls of St. Anthony and 
the city of Minneapolis. Across the river, 
and below the falls, are the beautiful cascades 
— "Fawn'.s Leap" and "Silver Cascade," also 
the Chalybeate Springs, which flow out from 
the limestone rock on the bank of the river. 




THE DALLES OF THE ST. LOCIS, NEAR 

Accessible by Chicago & 

which delights every one who visits it. On 
about three miles further, and tV.e traveler is 
at the celebrated " Falls of Minnehaha " — 
Laughing Water. These falls are formed by a 
little stream of remarkable purity and clear- 
ness, the outlet of lakes Minnetonka, Calhoun, 
Amelia, and Rice. In its course to the Mis. 
sissippi, a distance of nearly a mile from it, 
the stream makes a perpendicular leap of fifty- 
nine feet, the transparent water foaming and 
eparking like diamonds in the sunlight. In 
Winter it is covered with pyramids and col- 



NORTII PACIFIC JUNCTION', MINNESOTA. 
Northwestern Railway. 



The Merchants, Metropolitan, Park Place Ho- j 
tel, and the International are the best hotels \ 
in St. Paul. ; 

A leading feature of Minneapolis, which is j 
especially noticeable, and an attraction, is the 
chain of beautiful lakes about three miles out.::; 
For beauty of surroundings and crystal clear-^ 
ness, one can scarcely imagine more charming" 
bodies of water than lakes Harriet and Cal- ' 
boun, the Lake of the Isles, and Cedar Lake,»i 
while still further on, some fifteen miles dis-f; 
tant, Lake Minnetonka, approachable by rail-li 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 131 



road, and one of the largest and most beauti- 
ful sheets of water in tlie Stale, offers its at- 
tractions to the visitor or resident, affording 
an abundance of fish and wild fowl, and sail- 
ing and boating. To the east a few miles is 
tliat famed resort, White Bear Lake. The Nic- 
colet, Commercial, and Clark's are the princi- 
pal hotels. 

There are several lines terminating at St. 
Paul that connect with the Chicago & North- 
western. The game re.sorts along these lines 
of travel — and thej generally traverse the 



White Bear Lake is a popular resort twelve 
miles from St. Paul, with splendid hunting and 
fishing all around. The principal hotels are 
Williams', Leip's, and Dunn's. 

Stillwater, twenty-four miles from St. Paul, 
is resorted to by sportsmen in the Pall, when 
deer and other game are abundant, the numer- 
ous lakes in the vicinity adding to the attrac- 
tions. Principal hotel is the Sawyer House. 

Fond du Lac, fourteen miles from Duluth, is 
beautifully situated on the St. Louis River, 
and has many attractions in hunting, fishing, 




WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINNESOTA. 



Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Eailway. 



best hunting grounds in the country — are 
elsewhere noticed, and shall therefore only 
briefly invite attention to a few localities most 
easily accessible along the routes. 

THE LAKE SUPERIOR & MISSISSIPPI RAILROAD. 

The line of this road extends from St. Paul, 
the head of navigation on the Mississippi Riv- 
er, to Duluth, at the head of Lake Superior, a 
distance of one hundred and fifty-five miles: 
also a branch to Stillwater, on the St. Croix 
River. It traverses a fine game country, and 
connects with the Chicago & North- Western 
at St. Paul. 



and scenery. Chambers' Hotel is pleasantly 
located, and offers excellent aocommodaliuns 
to the visitor. 

Duluth, the lake terminus of the road, is 
beautifully located on an eminence overlook- 
ing Lake Superior. Connections are made here 
with all the lines of steamers traversing the 
lakes, for Silver Islet, Thunder Bay, Prince 
Arthur's Landing, Fort William, Nepigon 
Bay, Michepicoton Island, &c. The principal 
hotel is the Clark House. 

ON THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. 

This line is now in operation from Duluth 
to Bismark, Dakota, on the Missouri River, a 



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distance of four hundred and fifty miles, pass- 
ing through one of the finest shooting sections 
in the country, where not only every variety 
of feathered game is found in tlie greatest 
abundance, but deer, bear, and other animals 
afford most excellent sport. Leaving Duluth, 
the tourist traverses the shores of the Bay of 
Superior, St. Louis Bay, and passing up the 
Dalles of the St. Louis River, has in constant 
view for tvveuty-five miles, some of the most 



dred and fifty long, surface generally level, 
and well watered by numerous streams oa 
both sides of Red River. From here westward, 
the road passes for two hundred miles over an 
open, undulating prairie, broken only by the 
valleys of the Shayenne and James rivers, to 
its present terminus at Bismarck, on the Mis- 
souri River. The country surrounding Brain- 
erd affords fine inducements for sportsmen. 
The lakes are filled with black and rock bass, 




IRON MINE AND ORE TRAIN, NEAR NEGAUNEE, MICHIGAN. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



beautiful pictures of natural scenery that can 
be found in the Northwest. At Detroit, nine- 
ty miles west of the Mississippi River, the 
traveler finds himself in what has been ap- 
propriately named the Park Region of the 
Northwest, so called on account of the many 
picturesque parks and groves. At a point one 
hundred and twenty miles west of Brainerd, 
the far-famed valley of the Red River of the 
North is reached, once, if not now, the famous 
buffalo-hunting grounds ol the French-half 
breeds of Red River. This great valley is 
about forty miles wide and some three hun- 



pickerel, and pike, and in season the woods » 
affords prime shooting ; deer, partridge, ducks, f 
and geese are found in large numbers. There I 
is one good hotel in the village. There is •• 
good hunting and fishing at Detroit; in fact, l 
excellent sport can be had at almost any poinS : 
along the route. 

ON THE SPARTA AND WINONA BRANCH. '■ 

This branch extends from Elroy, Wisconsin, ! 
to Lake Kampeska, Dakato, a distance of six J 
hundred and twenty-three miles, and passes ; 
through a fine section for hunting and fishing, i 



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Two hundred and seventeen miles from Chi- 
cago, Glendale is reached. It is in tlie midst 
of a fine trouting country and in a neighbor- 
hood where game is plentiful. Many streams, 
literally alive with brook trout, are within four 
to six miles of the village. The Glendale 
House offers good fare to the sportsman. 

Lake Torrence, well stocked witli brook 
trout, is within half a mile of Kendalls, a sta- 
tion two hundred and niueten miles from Chi- 



in Central Wisconsin. Situated in a fertile 
valley, entirely surrounded by gigantic blufis 
and rocky elevations, near the headwaters of 
the La Crosse River, it presents, with its 
handsome white-painted dwellings and church 
edifices, its costly business houses and public 
buildings, with streets adorned with natural 
and cultivated foliage, the appearance of a 
prosperous Southern country-seat. Its sur- 
roundings are picturesque, and even roman- 




THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



cago. There is good shooting in the neighbor- 
hood, and three hotels in the village. 

Wilton, two hundred and twenty-eight miles 
from Chicago, is built at the headwaters of 
Kickapoo Creek, which, with lateral streams, 
are full of brook trout. Bear, deer, and squirrels 
are found in the surrounding forests, while 
prairie chickens, grouse, and quail are plenti- 
ful in the clearings. The village has two ex- 
cellent hotels. 

Norwalk is two hundred and thirty-three 
miles from Chicago, situated among numerous 
trout streams and in the centre of a fine game 
country. 

Sparta, two hundred and forty-six miles 
from Chicago, is one of the finest inland towns 



tic. To the northwest, and at a distance of 
five miles, can be seen Castle Rock, towering 
majestically to a height several hundred feet 
above the level of the river, standing like a 
silent sentinel on the top of the encircling cor- 
don of bluffs that surround the valley. From 
its lofty summit can be seen the blue hills of 
Minnesota, across the "Fathers of Waters," 
and an extended panorama of hill and dale is 
presented to the admiring gaze. Looking back 
to the southward, the eye rests (in Summer) 
on the verdue-clad valley below, dotted over 
with its nice farm-houses, teeming fields of 
grain, and crystal streams of soft pure wat(r, 
abounding plentifully with the finest of brook 
(speckled) trout, aflbrdiiig sport and recreation 



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to the angler and tourist, in the midst of which 
Spftrta stands, Monarch of the Valley. Plea- 
sure drives and hunting grounds are numer- 
ous. Delightful camping places and pic-nic 
resorts are everywhere to be found beneath 
the ridges that encircle the town. Trout and 
game are abundant, there being over two 
luindred and fifty miles of trout streams in the 
county (Monroe), and Perch Lake, of easy 



and several other varieties of fish, are found 
in great abundance. A splendid brook trout 
stream flows through the village, and half a 
mile from it is a large artificial trout pond, 
fully stocked with fish. In the woods which 
surround the village, are found deer, squirrels, 
wild turkeys, and other game. Many fine 
bird-dogs are kept here expressly for hire. 
The Bangor House is a good place to stop at. 




CITY AQUEDUCT, SALT LAKE CITY 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railwa}'. 



access, was artificially stocked with perch a 
few years since. The hotel accommodations 
of Spai ta are excellent and ample. The War- 
ner, Ida, American, Windsliip, Wagner, Bates, 
and the Laird are houses that provide for their 
guests all the comforts, conveniences, and es- 
sential luxuries at less than half the cost of 
the same at the Eastern watering-places. 

Bangor, two hundred and fifty-five miles 
from Chicago, is sixteen miles east of the 
Mississippi River. Excellent shooting and 
fishing can be had close to the village, in the 
La Crosse River, within a fourth of a mile of 
the town. Pike, pickerel, black and rock bass, 



Onalaska, two hundred and sixty-nine miles! 
from Chicago, is within easy access of goodj 
hunting and fishing. | 

Winona, just across the Mississippi River,j 
two hundred and ninety-seven miles from Chi-| 
cago, is the largest and most important com 
mercial city in Southern Minnesota, and th 
county (of the same name ) is quite famoui 
for its many well-filled trout streams. Thi 
city is pleasantly located on a beautifnl level 
prairie, on the west bank of the Mississippi" 
River. Lake Winona adjoins the city, and in^^ 
early days was noted for its game and fi.shl- 
The oily has ample hotel accommodations. % 



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Minnesota City, three hundred and three 
miles from Chicago, is located on Rolling 
Stone River. Brook trout in considerable 
numbers are caught iu the streams at the head- 
waters of the river. 

Stockton, three hundred and eight miles 
from Chicago, is surrounded by timbered bluffs, 
affording good shooting. 

Rochester is iu Olmstead county, Minnesota, 



from Chicago, is situated on the outlet of 
Lake Elyrian, in Waseca county, Minnesota. 
The lake is a beautiful body of pure, clear 
water, seven miles long, and is stocked with 
many varieties of fish, and recently salmon 
have been introduced. 

Eagle Lake, four hundred and twenty- one 
miles from Chicago, is in Blue Earth county, 
Minnesota, and iu the centre of "The Big 




LAKE MINNETONKA, JIIEXESOTA. 

Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 



three hundred and forty-seven miles from Chi- 
cago. The county is well watered by the 
Zumbro (?) and Root Rivers, which afiord 
good duck-shooting and fishing. The county 
is about two-thirds gently undulating prairie, 
the balance heavily wooded with oak, hickory, 
maple, and other hard wood, affording excel- 
lent game covers. Rochester is located iu a 
beautiful valley about two miles wide, through 
which the Zumbro (?) River flows. Picturesque 
bluffs lie along the valley, from the crests of 
which many fine views are obtained. Game 
is abundant on the prairie around the city. It 
has thiee hotels, which provide excellently 
and well for their guests. 

Janesville, four hundred and thirteen miles 



Woods," which runs along the Minnesota 
River for over one hundred miles. The village 
is built on the shore of Eagle Lake, which is 
five miles iu circumference, and "full offish."' 
No better water-fowl shooting grounds can be 
found in the country. Reed birds are foiuid 
iu countless numbers. Madison Lake, forty 
miles in circumference, is some three miles 
north. There is only one good hotel iu the 
village. 

Mankato, four hundred and thirty-two miles 
from Chicago, is the county seat of Blue Earth 
county. Five rivers converge here and empty 
into the Minnesota ; they are the Blue Earth, 
Maple, Cobb, La Sueur, and Wautonwan, and 
cause the vicinity to be called the " Undine 



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Region." lu the county are also thirty lakes 
— Loon, Crystal, Jackson's, Eagle, Rico, Mad- 
ison, Laura, Wilte, and Minneopa being the 
largest. Tiie Falls of Minneopa, on the outlet 
of lakes Crystal and Loon, are very fine, and 
are claimed to be more beautiful than Minne- 
haha in many respects. Sportsmen can have 
rare sport here, game and fish abounding in 
great abundance. There are no less than fif- 
teen holels in the village for the traveler to 
select from. 

Kasota, four hundred and thirty-four miles 
from Chicago, is situated in the vicinity of a 
Lumber of beautiful little lakes, from which 
fish may be taken at any time. The Kasota 
House is the best hotel. 

St. Peter, four hundred and thirty-seven 
miles from Chicago, is built on terraces, on 
the left bank of the Minnesota River, and has 
a very attractive and picturesque appearance. 
Many lakes are near the city, inhabited by 
every variety of fish, and Lake Emily was 
stocked with Atlantic salmon a year or two 
ago. The city has three hotels. 

Sleepy-Eye Lake, four hundred and eighty 
miles from Chicago, is in the vicinity of excel- 
lent shooting and fishing. Game of all kind 
is found in abundance, and fish of almost 
every variety are taken from the lakes, of 
wliich there are several in the neighborhood 
in addition to Sleepy-Eye. 

From Marshall, five hundred and forty-five 
miles from Cliicago, the railroad is built from 
this point through Lac Qui Parle, State Line, 
Dakota, Coteau, and Prairie, to Lake Kam- 
peska, six hundred and tvk'enty-four miles 
from Chicago. Settlements are few and far 
between, and splendid shooting and fishing 
can be had all along the route. Game and 
fish are so abundant that the killing and tak- 
ing soon ceases to become a pleasure. 

Retracing our steps to Chicago, we will 
tell our readers of a few pleasant places 

ON THE MILWAUKEE DIVISION. 

Highland Park is a pleasant Summer re- 
sort, twenty-three miles from Chicago. It oc- 
cupies a charming location overlooking Lake 
Michigan. 

Waukegan, thirty-six miles from Chicago, 
is situated on a bluff commanding a fine view 
of Lake Michigan, and as a Summer resort 
offers far superior and more meritorous at- 
tractions than hundreds of other points. 



Kenosha, fifty-one miles from Chicago, is 
in Kenosha county, in which there are many 
lakes from one to two miles wide that afford 
good fishing. Silver, Paddocks, Camp, Cen- 
tre, Lily, Powers, and Twin Lakes are the 
largest. On Twin Lake is a pleasure steam- 
er during the Summer months. 

New Cassel, one hundred and thirty-three 
miles from Chicago, is surrounded by a beau- 
tiful forest on the north, and a chain of gen- 
tle elevations on the south, among the hills 
and valleys lies one of Nature's parks. Lake 
Fifteen is three miles and Long Lake seven 
miles distant. They have many attractions, 
and will soon become popular Summer re- 
sorts. A large variety of game and fish are 
found in those sections. On Bannon's farm, 
as also on Dierrerger's, one mile from New 
Cassel, may be found Indian mounds, em- 
bankments, ditches, &c., laid out with great 
precision, showing that the builders had con- 
siderable knowledge of military science. In 
the village are three good hotels. 

On reaching Milwaukee, the traveler can 
proceed up the lake by taking the cars of the 
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway, 
passing through Port Washington, Belgium, 
Sheboygan, Manitowoc, to Two Rivers, all 
places of interest and on the lake shore. 

Sheboygan is one of the most delightful 
Summer resorts in the West. It is beautiful- 
ly located upon a bluff overlooking Lake 
Michigan, whose azure waters, moving per- 
petually, and here and there dotted with sails, 
are a constant source of amusement to the 
eye, while in the background lies a landscape 
of rare beauty — hills clad with the richest 
verdure, groves of native forest trees and 
fields of waving grain. The Sheboygan River 
flows down one of the most picturesque val- 
leys in the State, winds nearly half way round 
the city, and finally empties into the lake 
south of the residence portion of the place, 
affording a safe and convenient harbor. The 
river affords unsurpassed opportunies for row- 
ing, while the lake is a favorite resort for' 
those who enjoy sailing. Pleasure boats of 
all kinds may be had here. The fishing is 
good ; the fisheries here are among the most 
important on Lake Michigan, and a Summer 
day can hardly be more pleasantly spent than 
in visiting them in one of the steam fishing 
smacks. The drives in the vicinity of the 



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137 



city are many and pleasant, especially the one 
up the liver for five mile?. A recent acquisi- 
tion to the place is the discovery of unusual- 
ly valuable remedial qualities in the waters of 
an artesian well that has been sunk iti the. 
city. Its waters ore strongly impregnated 
with various salts, and an analysis shows ele- 
ments of rare value. The Beekman House 
is Sheboygan's principal hotel. It is well 
furnished and well kept. 

From Sheboygan the popular Summer re- 
sorts along the line of the Sheboygan & Fond 
du I.ac Railway may be reached. It is only 
an hour's ride from Sheboygan to the beauti- 
ful Elkhart Lake, acknowledged to be one 
of the healthiest places in the West. Elkhart 
Lake covers eight hundred acres, and fur- 
nishes fine facilities for black-bass fishing. It 
is pleasingly diversified by bays, which co- 
qucvtishly wind around jutting bluffs, beneath 
whose shades the crystal waters slumbers, so 
pure and clear that the whi'e sand can be 
seen to the depth of twenty to twenty-five 
feet. All the brilliant colors of the rainbow 
are reflected on the smooth and sparkling 
surface of the water, and bordered by a beau- 
tiful green, reflected from the foliage of the 
hillside. Hotels ample" See page 139. 

ON THE SIOUX CITY & PACIFIC RAILROAD. 

This line starts from Missouri Valley Jiuie- 
tion, on the Chicago & North-Western Rail- 
way, and runs noith to Sioux City, seventy- 
five miles, iind has a brancli from California 
Junction to Fremont, on llie Union Pacific, 
forty-seven miles west of Omaha, and another 
line running from Fremont northwest 10 Wis- 
ner, rendering the magnificent sliooling sec- 
tion traversed of easy access. 

Game of all kinds abounds in the vicinity 
of River Sioux, twenty miles from Missouri 
Valley. Deer are very plentiful. No hotels, 
but good accommodations can be had of the 
farmers. 

Sloan, fifty-five miles from Missouri Valley, 
is a splendid hunting-ground. Game of all 
kinds is plentiful — prairie chickens, ducks, 
geese, and quail are found at all seasons of 
the year. Deer are also found in consider- 
able numbers. No hotels. 

Sioux City, seventy-five miles from Missouri 
Valley, is pleasantly situated on the Missouri 
River, immediately abQve the mouth of Floyd, 



and two miles below the mouth of the Big 
Sioux. In addition to these, the coimtry ia 
drained by the Little Sioux and Maple Rivers. 
These streams abound in fish of all kinds, 
including pike, pickerel, black bass, channel 
eat, buffalo, &c., affording rare sport to the 
angler, while the abundance of deer, turkeys, 
geese, ducks, quail and prairie chickens fur- 
nish splendid shooting throughout the year. 
Sioux City has thres hotels — The Hubbard, 
St. Elmo, and Depot, which can accommodate 
three hundred guests at $2 a day. Sioux City 
Falls is located at the Falls, and is the favor- 
ite resoit in this part of the country, the 
river affording excellent fishing and the sur- 
rounding country fine shooting, besides mag- 
nificent .'scenery. Here is found the celebrated 
red pipestone quarry, held in almost religious 
veneration by the Indians. Indians of all 
tribes and from all quarters of the continent 
here congregate on what is considered neu- 
tral ground, and prooure material for carving 
out their truly artistic pipes; the marble is 
bright red, and is capable of a high degree 
of polish. There are good hotels in Sioux 
City. 

Wisuer is pleasantly located in the valley 
of the Elkhorn, one of the most beautiful in 
the world, eighty-eight miles from Missouri 
Valley. Horse-shoe, Deer, Swan, Goose, 
Pickerel, Beaver, and Bull-head Lakes are 
from one to four miles from Wisner, and are 
full of fish. Wild game is very plentiful, 
amongst which are the antelope, deer, geese, 
ducks, prairie chickens, and quail. There are 
two hotels — The Elkhorn and The Wisner. 

ON THE DAKATO SOUTHERN RAILROAD. 

This road starts from Sioux City, Iowa, and 
enters Dakota at the extreme southeast cor- 
ner. It connects at Yankton with the Mis- 
souri Transportation Company's line of steam- 
ers for the Upper Missouri. The Dakota South- 
ern, in connection with this line of steamers, 
runs nearly diagonally through the territory 
to Fort Benton, Montana, and h»s rendered a 
region prolific in every description of gam« 
of easy access to sportsmen. 

In conclusion, we can recommend the Chi- 
cago & Northwestern to the sportsman and 
tourist. The road is one of the best equipped 
in the country, the conductors obliging, and 
every courtesy ia shown to passengers. 



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SCENES AND PLACES OF NOTE ON THE LINE OF THE WIS- 
CONSIN CENTRAL RAILROAD. 



Multitudes of the people of this coun- 
try annually take atrip, during the warm 
season, to some more or less noted Sum- 
mer resort; thousands go for mere plea- 
sure — for a simple change of scene — 
many to regain lost health; others — and 
most of our readers — for the sport of 
fishing or hunting. When the heat, 
whirl, and bustle of great cities distress 
and worry; when overtaxed nature suc- 
cumbs to the thermometer away up in 
the " nineties " and still ascending; while 
dust, impure air, and foul sewerage in- 
vite miasma and malaria, the scourge of 
warm climates; when the heart sighs for 
a "lodge in some vast wilderness," then 
a knowledge of the delightful retreats 
for Summer pleasure seekers, anglers, 
and sportsmen offered by the Wisconsin 
Central Railroad may be interesting and 
instructive. 

Northern Wisconsin is, cdmpartively, 
a new country, and yet the liff-reviving 
properties of the clear air of tiie Lake 
Superior region and the Pineries, and the 
scenery along the Wisconsin Central Rail- 
road hav.^ already become noted resorts 
for sportsmen and tourists. 

The company has recently co'np]et';d 
its branch line to Appleton, and through 
trains are now run to that, as well as to 
other points on the line. An examina- 
tion of tlie accompanying map will at 
once give the traveler a clear idea o' the 
route. For a continuation of the jour- 
ney, or a siioit trip on Lake Supeiior, 
there is a daily steamer line from Asli- 
laud to all points on the South Shore, 
and one semi-weekly to the North Side. 
It will suffice to mention here that the 
passenger equipment of the line is unsur- 
passed. The day coaches are twelve- 



wheeled, and fitted with the Westing- 
house automatic air brake and the Mil- 
ler platform and coupler. \w addition 
to the general office at Milwaukee, the 
company has an office at <il Clark street, 
Chicago, D. M. Boynton, general agent. 
Those calling upon him will find him ful- 
ly posted as to the best points and the 
accommodations to be had. lie will also 
telegraph ahead and secure rooms when 
desired. At various points along the 
route, besides hotels, are quiet family re- 
sorts. There the overworked and wear- 
ied man or woman can get the desired 
rest. The effect of a few weeks at Ash- 
land on sufferers from hay fever is mar- 
velous. It is one of the few places in- 
dorsed by the Hay Fever Association of 
the United States as offering instant and 
immediate relief. The company trans- 
port all hunting and camping cqtiipnge 
free of charge. 

The tourist will be pleased to know 
that the hotels at points, which have be- 
come, from one cause or another, at- 
tractive as Summer Resorts, are well 
kep-, and that those mentioned here are 
worthy the patronage and confidence of 
tiie traveling public. Charges are ex- 
tremely moderate, and the comforts and 
conveniences are first-class in every re- 
spect. The immediate coimection of the 
Wisconsin Central Railroad in Chicago 
is with the Chicago, iVIilwuukee & St. 
Paul Railway, from whose Madison 
Street Depot the through coaches of this 
line start. 

The best train for the tourist from 
Chicago is that leaving at 9 r. m.. At 
that hour the traveler can take a through 
sleeping car, passing Milwaukee at 12 
o'clock midnight, ar;-iviug at Meuasha, 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 139 



Appleton, De Pere, or Green Bay for 
breakfast, reaching Ashland for supper 
at 6.45 o'clock in the evening. This 
train also takes on a sleeper at Milwau- 
kee for the accommodation of those start- 
ing from that point, or who arrive from 
tlie West. 

The day train leaves Chicago at 10 



River, in the immediate neighborhood, 
there is good duck-shooting. The na- 
tural features and surroundings of the 
lake are unexcelled ; the shores are high 
and picturesque, with a high and sandy 
beach at which boats can laud at any 
point. Its outlines are very irregular, 
witli numerous coves and inlets. The 




ELKUART LAKI 



A. M., dinner at Milwaukee, supper at 
Elkhart Lake, Menasha, Appleton, De 
Fere, or Green Bay. The first point of 
any general interest to our readers is 
Elkhart Lake, sixty-two miles from Mil- 
waukee, one of the most beautiful sheets 
, of clear water in inland Wisconsin. The 
(lake covers about eight hundred acres, 
I and is, in many places, two hundred feet 
in depth. Fish are abundant, and there 
I is plenty of game in the adjacent forests, 
'and in the big marsh of the Sheboygan 



water being supplied from springs, is 
very pure and clear, and small objects on 
the bottom, at a depth of twenty-five 
feet, can be readily discerned. With the 
exception of here and there a finished 
clearing, on which stands a hotel or cot- 
tage, the lake is completely surrounded 
by enormous trees, in many places over- 
hanging the water, affording shelter for 
the angler, or shady nooks for rowing 
parties. The hotel accommodations are 
ample and of the best. The Swiss Cot- 



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tage, Sharpe's, Swartz's, the Davidson 
House, Kural Home, and Carvers' 
are the very best. Most all the 
hotels have bath-houses attached, and 
all those little accessories, so necessary 
to corafort, have 
not been 1( r o ter. 
Boats are plent} , 
and are free to 
the gncsts of ilie 
8 veral hotels. 

Menasha - Nee - 
nah, sitnat'd on 
Lake Winnebago 
just where the lake 
enoptics into Fox 
River, is one hun- 
dred and two miles 
from Milwaukee. 
Lake Wi ;neba- 
go has an area of 
three hundred 

square miles, and 

the sportsman need 

have no lack of 

pleasurable novel- 
ties. The Fox and 

Wolf rivers flows 

through it, and the 

outlet here h;',s 

long been noted 

as the finest bass 

fishing ground in 

the State— it might 

besaidinthe woil 1. 11 
Sailing vessels ', 

can always be had, " " ' '' " ^ " 

and the advantages are unsurpassed. 

The drives are numerous and pleasant. 

The National Hotel of Menasha 
(Forsythe Brothers, proprietors), is a 
fine brick building, overlooking the river 
and lake, within five minutes' walk of 
the depot. The table is always first- 
class, the rooms are large and airy, and 



i! 

the comfort of guests attentively cared . ] 
for. A very pleasant drive is to start ' ] 
from the door of the " National" and *: 
follow the road along down the lake to 
Oshkosh, twelve miles south, or over to 




Appleton, a little over four miles north, J 
Robert's Summer Resort is k<pt by; 
John Roberts. To speak in his praise , 
is almost useless, as he is well known 1 
throughout the country as a worthy host, j 
His House is situated on Doty's Island,, 
half a mile from the Menasha depot. Itj 
occupies the site of the old homestead of I 



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141 



Governor Doty, and is charmingly loca- 
ted, commanding fine views of the lake; 
excellent boats lie moored in front of the 
house, and good boatmen are always in 
attendance. Omnibusses are at every 
train. The Russel House, Jseenah, J. 
B. Russell, proprietor, also makes a 
specialty of caring for tourists. 

Green Bay is one hundred and thir- 
teen miles from Milwaukee. Pickerel, 
black and white bass, perch and stur- 
geon, are found in the bay and in the 
numerous ponds and bayous in the neigh- 
borhood, which are also resorts of im- 
mense flocks of wild duck in season. 
Sail and row boats and steam yachts 
can be hired at low prices. (See page 
120.) Green Bay is the terminus of 
the " short line." Resuming the route 
on the main line, the next point of in- 
terest is 

Gill's Landing, one hundred and twen- 
ty-six miles from Milwaukee, where the 
road crosses Wolf River. There are no 
accommodations for parties at this point, 
but he who wants can get a " rough and 
tumble" with the agent, and hunters find 
more game near here than elsewhere in 
the State. Close at hand are lakes, 
ponds, and bayous, which are resorts for 
immense flocks of wild ducks in season. 
Plover, snipe, woodcock, and pigeons 
are abundant. 

There are few places to be found that 
present greater inducements to the tour- 
ist than the unostentatious little city of 
Waupaca, one hundred and thirty-six 
miles from Milwaukee. In a country 
not yet entirely reclaimed from a state of 
nature, the sojourner will discover in the 
panorama of views some exquisite scen- 
ery, landscapes of woodland, meadow, 
and uncultivated tracts dotted with vil- 
lages; rivers, with their changing moods 
of gentle currents and hurrying rapids; 



lakes and ponds of varying size, mirror- 
ing in their depths the beauties of earth 
and sky; hills of increasing height, from 
the low eminence to that of lofty gran- 
deur and crowned with forest growth, 
meet the eye at every turn. Within the 
city limits of Waupaca, at the foot of 
Main street, are two beautiful lakes, 
Mirror and Shadow. The banks are 
very high, and consist of fine groves, some 
of them having been fitted up for social 
gatherings. These two lakes are con- 
nected l)y a channel fifteen or twenty 
feet w'de; and as they are each over a 
mile in length, they afford ready oppor- 
tunity for those who delight in boating. 
The Waupaca River empties into the. 
Wolf at Gill's Lauding. A very pleasant 
day can be spent by taking a boat and 
allowing it to glide gently down the 
Waupaca River below the mills. This 
swift -rolling stream, which passes 
through the place, is rapid and tortu- 
ous; the distance, in a straight line from 
the city of Waupaca to the mouth of the 
Wolf, is but twelve miles, but following 
the thread of the river in its winding 
course, the distance is forty to fifty miles. 
But the most attractive feature of this 
locality is the somewhat noted " Chaia 
of Lakes," two and a half miles west of 
the city. Here are eight lakes, all con- 
nected by natural channels, extending 
some five or six miles, presenting a scene 
of enchanting loveliness. The attraction 
is enhanced by the little islands that stud 
the bosom of the waters; by the penin- 
sulars, or sharp points, that thrust them- 
selves out into the lakes ; by the high 
shores covered with dense foliage, and 
by the rugged clilfs rising at places 
abruptly from the shores. The fishing 
is most excellent — pickerel, white and 
black bass predominating. The Vos- 
berg House, F. B. Vosberg, proprietor 



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and the Lewis House, G. W. Lewis, pro- 
prietor, acconiraodatc a large number of 
guests, and there is no difficulty in ob- 
taining board in private families. 

Stevens' Point, one hundred and sixt}^- 
five miles from Milwaukf^e, is the junc- 
tion with the Portage Branch, twelve 
hours' ride from Cliicago. From here 
the route first goes northwest and then 
due north, through the vast forests of 
Central and Northern Wisconsin, one 
hundred and eighty-six miles to Ashland, 
and passes th''ough thick forests of hard 
wood and pine, broken only by the clear- 
ings for settlements which have been 
made within the past few years. Here 
the traveler gets a glimpse of the " forest 
primeval " as he journeys on his way 
north. Immense pines rear their heads 
high toward heaven, sturdy oaks spread 
their limbs far out in every direction, 
while the foliage of the maple, hickory, 
ash, and birch add variety and make a 
picture of natural beauty unsurpassed 
and seldom equalled. In some places 
the monster trees, thrown down, piled 
one on the other, their branches twisted, 
snarled, and intertwined, give evidence 
that a more than usually severe wind has 
visited that portion of the forest. Again 
you pass a solitary pine, towering far 
above the surrounding trees, its black- 
ened trunk giving evidence that fire has 
caused its death, standing like a sentinel 
keeping guard over its smaller compan- 
ions. In the forests between Stevens' 
and Ashland Point those who are fond of 
camping out, and who enjoy a life in the 
woods, can realize their heart's desire. 
The many lakes, rivers, and streams af- 
ford ample opportunities for canoeing and 
^shing, and the woods are full of game 
and deer in season. 

Colby, fifty-one miles from Stevens' 
Poiut, is a small village containing eight 



or ten stores, and several hotels and pri- 
vate boarding-houses. Trains going 
north stop here for dinner. A friend 
visiting this place recently says: " On 
making inquiries of parties in town, I was 
told that deer shooting was excellent, 
and, as the train approached the depot, 
I saw a man driving an ox-team, who 
had a large buck in the wagon." Ano- 
ther says: "The deer are plenty, and 
every train brings several per express. 
Colby is the best point." All the lakes 
and rivers in the northern part of the 
State (a glance at the map will show- 
anyone that they are far from scarce) 
teem with fish, and most of them can be 
easily reached by this line. 

Dorchester, fifty-seven miles from 
Stevens' Point, is a small but flourishing 
town. Shooting is good in the vicinity. 

Medford is sixty-seven miles from 
Stevens' Point. This is a thriving little 
town on the Black Eiver. The country 
in the vicinity is not very thickly settled. 
The shooting here is not of much ac- 
count, but splendid fishing for muska- 
longe, bass, &c., can be had in the lakes 
about six miles west. 

Three stations beyond Medford, at 
Westboro', is the place, or one of them, 
for deer-hunters to get off. Thirteen 
miles west of the town is a village called 
the Yellow River country, which is a 
paradise for deer hunters. The deer 
leave the upper country about the 1st of 
September, and come down on the Yel- 
low River, where they stay in the hard- 
wood country until Spring, when they 
return. Parties wishing to visit this sec- 
tion may be able to make arrangements 
to stay in the logging camp, if they pre- 
fer that to camping out. There is a good 
road to the camp from the station, and 
men and traps can be carried there with 
a team. The Yellow and Jump rivers, 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 143 



both about a mile from the camp, are 
full of muskalonge and other fish. This 



partridges are very plenty. Any one 
visiting this section must be prepared to 
rough it. Tents and 
guides can be pro- 
cured by application 
to Mr.'s. D. Cone, 
station agent, at 
Westboro', and any 
further information 
will be cheerfully 
given by that gen- 
tleman upon appli- 
cation. Besides the 
shooting, those who 
enjoy the sport of 
fishing can hardly 
stop at a better 
point to indulge in 
their pastime. Six 
or seven miles east 
of the station h a 
chain of lakes, eight 
or ten in number, 
calkd the Spirit 
Ij a k e s. Besides 
these are the Rib 
Lakes. The Big 
Rib is a large lake, 
well stocked with 
fish, and all the 
lakes have large 
quantities of muska- 
longe and black 
bass, &c. Partridges 
are plenty, but other 
game is rather 
scarce, though an 
occasional deer is 
shot. 

Phillips, two hun- 
dred and seventy- 
three miles from 
Milwaukee, a lovely 

section has been but little hunted, owing I village on the banks of Elk Lake, a fine 
to the distance from the railroad, and I sheet of water, affording good boating 




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aud fishing. Elk Lake (one of a chain of 
four considerable bodies of water,) is 
tributary to the Flambeau River; boats 
and fishing parapliernalia are readily ob- 
tained, and a day spent on any one of 
the countless lakes in the vicinity, which 
have hitherto been fished only by In- 
dians, will fully satisfy the most ardent 
sportsman. As the boat glides along, 



a few steps from the porch of either one 
to the docks, where lie moored the boats 
ready for sail or row. These hotels can 
accommodate about one hundred and 
fifty guests. 

Butternut Lake, is two !iundred and 
ninety-seven miles from Milwaukee. To 
those who enjoy camp life aud canoeing, 
the numerous streams and lakes of the 




SCENERY NORTH OF PENOKEE. 



the angler taking here a fine bass or 
perch, and there a pike or pickerel, there 
will pass before him a constant changing 
panorama — some new scene of beauty 
will be brought to view as the boat turns 
a point or passes an island. The sur- 
rounding forests abound in deer and other 
game. There are two hotels at Phillips, 
situated directly on the banks, and com- 
manding a full view of the lake; it is but 



Flambeau and Chippewa, close at hand, 
will furnish unlimited sport to anglers 
for bass, pike, pickerel, aud perch. There 
are almost countless lakes never fi.'^hed 
but by Indians. Extra heavy tackle 
must be used, as the nmscalonge are .ex- 
ceedingly gamey. They frequently w^igh 
as much as forty pounds. The descrip- 
tion of the lakes at Phillips might well 
answer for those in this vicinity— they, 



EUl^TING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. I45 



are of the same general character. But- 
ternut Lake is one mile from the station. 
Mr. G. W. Stubblefield has erected a 
hotel on an island in the lake, selecting 
11 remarkably picturesque location, where 
guides, boats, and all the paraphernalia 
for tishing and camping can be obtained, 
'i'iie house can accommodate from twen- 



Just before reaching Penokee Station, 
three hundred and twenty-four miles from 
Milwaukee, the conductors on the trains 
inform the passengers that they are about 
to pass through the " Gap " of the Pe- 
nokee Mountains. Here the tourist finds 
in the dalles and rapids of Bad River, 
where it breaks through the hills and be- 




RAPIDS OF THE TYLER FORK OF BAD RIVEU. 



ly to thirty guests. There are two fine 
sail, and any quantity of row boats con- 
nected with the house. 

The next station after Butternut is 
Chippewa, headquarters for immense 
luraberin/ :;amps. In the neighborhood 
are lakes simihir to those mentioned as 
being at Phillips and Butternut, teeming 
with fish, where a line has never yet been 
thrown except by the dusky redskin. 



tween towering rocks, a number beauti- 
ful landscapes and charming pictures o 
woodland scenery. It is here that some 
of the most difficult engineering was ac- 
complished in buildiug this highway, and 
one can appreciate the magnitude of the 
difficulties which had to be overcome in 
order to push to completion this rather, 
arduous undertaking. The railroad fol-, 
lows, to a certain extent, the course of 



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THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURISTS GUIDE. 



Bad Eiver. This stream certainly does 
not belie its name; a more crooked and 



" Twenty miles from Ashland, and 'i 
about one mile east of the railroad track," | 




FALLS OF TYLER FORK UF BAD HlVKr. 



tortuons mountain torrent could not be 
conceived. The road crosses Bad River 
seventeen times in nine miles. 



says the editor of the Railway Aga, 
" are the Falls of Bad River, which ! 
equal in wild beauty any that have bono; - | 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 147 



ed artists' canvas or inspired poetic song. 
They are not more than a quarter of a 
mile distant from each other — so near 
that the roar of the waters of each can 
be heard of the other." 

There are two branches of the river, 



ed by perpendicular walls of stone fully 
a huiided feet high, down which it would 
be impossible for any person safely to 
descend. 

Just below these falls the waters of 
the river dash through a narrow gorge, 




8--ajtuaai5..j^^ 



BAD RIVER FALLS. 



sne is known as the Tyler Fork, and the 
)ther of Bad River proper. There is a 
all on each just previous to their junc- 
tion. The largest is said to be over one 
"eet hundred in height, and the lower at 
east eighty feet. The latter is surround- 



apparently not more than ten feet wide, 
striking a projecting point of rocks a lit- 
tle farther on, causing them to retrace 
their course a short distance, creating 
directly opposite currents, when they re- 
sume their natural course over the stones 



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and between ever-changing and always 
interesting blufl?, on to the great lake 
only a slmrt distance nxvnv Tho spot 




OP TUE UAD KIVER. 



is exceedingly interesting, and affords a 
series of views richly deserving to take 
rank with the finest to be seen among 



the dalles of the " St. Croix," or else- 
where. 

The two branches of Bad River form 
a unction just below the falls, the 
forks of the river making a Y with 
a cataract on each limb. 

A log has been laid across the 
chasm of the canon of Bad River, 
and any one with steady nerves can 
easily cross from side to side. From 
this romantic canon to where it emp- 
ties iuto Lake Superior, the river 
lias a tortuous course, now pass- 
ing through dalles across which the 
trees nearly interlace, anon foaming 
over rocks, always picturesque, often 
grand. 

The trains from Ashland reach 
Bad River at 10 a. m., affording time 
to visit the interesting points in a 
day. This section should be visited 
with a guide, as more beautiful 
scenes are hidden from view. 

Silver Creek, s[)anned by an iron 
viaduct six hundred feet long and 
ninety feet high, is three hundred 
a"d thirty-three miles from Milwau- 
kee, and only eighteen miles from 
Ashland. Trout are not found to 
auy extent in the streams or lakes 
south of the Penokee Range, but 
Silver Creek is a trout stream liter- 
ally alive with fish; and near by are 
others — Trout Brook, the Bruns- 
weiler, and the Marengo, which af- 
ford most excellent sport. The 
early train from Ashland will land 
the angler at one of these streams by 
h.ilf past eight or nine in the morn- 
ing, and the whole day, until five 
o'clock in the afternoon, is before 
the fisherman. 
Trout Run bridge is where you leave 
the train for Harriet Lake, the bass fish- 
Dg a which is thus described by John W 



nuxTiyG Ayn ftshixg grouxds axd pleasure eesorts. 149 



Mmison, Esq., in a late uumber of The 
Cliicago Field : 

" Having: concluded to vary my sport of trout 
fishing by a day with the blacli bass, I pro- 
cured a guide who knew where Lake Harriet 



Brook brid-ie, about six:een u.iles down the 
line from Ashland. As the train swtpt ou, 
our guide plunged into the forest, followed by 
my wife and myself, and after an hour's tramp 
thiough what would have been an almost im- 
penetrable wood, but for a tolerably well- 




THE DALLES 

lay hidden in the pine wilderness. I took my 
wife with me to enjoy the rare sport I was 
promised, and lioarding the 7 A. M. train on 
the "Wisconsin Central Railroad, was dropped 
by the accommodating conductor at Trout 



' inn RIVER. 

defined blazed trail, we emerged upon a lovely 
little lake, covering probably eighty acres, en- 
tirely surrounded by lofty pines and thick 
undergrowth, which grew close qca'u to the 
water's edge, aud whose shadows were reflect- 



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THE SPORTSMAN'S AliD TOU-RrST'S GUIDE. 



ed upon its glassj' surface, lay Lake Harriet, 
aa if inviting us to cast in our lines and give 
it life for a brief time. The guide started 
along its lovely banks in search of his skiff, 
which he said was somewhere in the lake ; 
and in his absence we got out our tackle and 
began our sport. Hardly had I cast in my 
line ere it was taken greedily and I landed 
a black bass which would weigh fully a pound. 
My wife became immediately as enthusiastic 
as myself, and as soon as her line could be 



start about two o'clock. But the guide, who 
had been viewing the string and thinking of 
the tramp back to the railroad, said to me, 
" How many fish do you want to catch to-day, 
Mr. Munson?" I answered that I was ab- 
solutely indifferent whether I had a thousand 
or five thousand, and he remarked, ""Well, I 
thought I would just ask you, for we have 
about all we can carry home now, and if you 
catch any more it will only be waste." We 
counted them and found forty, that averaged 




SILVER CREEK VIADUCT. 



adjusted she followed me to the log on which 
] stood and cast in, both of us landing beauties 
immediately. The guide returned in a few mo- 
ments to find six fine bass lying in the grass ; 
and getting into the skiff, he paddled us around 
to different points on the l^ke, at all of which 
we had equally good sport. I never saw bass 
80 gamey or so plenlifnl. We fished actually 
till we were tired of catchtng them — if such 
a fish story can be believed coming from an 
amateur. At twelve o'clock we came ashore 
for a lunch and rest, intending to take a fresh 



about one pound each, and we stopped right 
there. I believe we could easly have caught 
an hundred more in the afternoon. They run 
very uniformly in size, not varying an ounce, 
I think, and they furnish as fine sport to the 
angler as any fish he can take. We used 
minnows, or rather small parts of minnowsi 
for we very soon concluded not to waste 
whole ones on them. We fished with neither 
suikers nor floats, simply casting the baited 
hook as far out as the rod would permit it to 
be thrown, and generally drawing it in before 



HUNTiya AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 151 



it sank to the bottom with a fine bass hooked. 
I believe we would have done as well with 
worms, or meat, or flies, or perhaps a piece of 
red flannel. I expect they would biie at any- 
thing from the voracious manner in which 
they went for our minnows. My wife and I 
had thrown our lines in about eight feet apart 
on one occasion, when I felt my hook taken 
and the bass dart oft*, making my line whistle 
through the water. Just then her liook was 
taken and away went her line as mine had 



ladies can enjoy the elegant trout fishing in 
which this region abounds, and ought to be 
brought along." 

White River, another splendid trout 
stream, three litindred and forty-five miles 
from Milwaukee, and six miles south of 
Ashland, is crossed by another mammoth 
iron viaduct. White River runs through 
a deep and very Avide ravine, and the 




WHITE RIVER VIADUCT. 



done. "We both began reeling in, thinking we 
each had a fine one, but as our hooks neared 
tl'o surface they began coming suspiciously 
clo'^e together, and as we hauled in, both of 
ua had fastened on the same bass. We landed 
him in the boat, and, as it was a double shot, 
I gallantly gave the honor to the lady in the 
case, and she scored one more. 

" I would, in recommending this little " baas 
mine" to sportsmen, suggest to the married 
cues by all means to bring their wives along 
and let them share the enjoyment. In fact, 



bridge is said to be the most beaotifui 
structure of the kind in existence. It is 
sixteen hundred feet long, one hundred 
and eight feet high, and wide enough to 
allow a foot-path on either side of the 
train. Standing on the bridge, whence 
the beauties of this architectural wonder 
can be viewed to the best advantage, one 
gazes with wonder and astonishment at 
this splendid achievement of enginc'ering 



15^ 



THE SP OR TSMA K'S AND TO URIST' S G UIDE. 



skill. Its great height and length give 
its timbers the appearance of a "spider's 
web, and it ijipfirs -nhollv inadeqnate 



cars that can stand securely on its top. 
From the platform of the car you can 

"it ind and tr\/e down npon the tops of the 




to sustain the weight of the lightest loco- I tall and straight pme trees which tower 
motive, to say nothing of the ponderous in the valley beneath, and upon the nar- 
wei"-ht of a huge engine and five long I row little stream which winds its tortu- 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 153 



ous way tlirough the middle of it. The 
bridge was built at a cost of $150,000, 
than which nothing is more to be admi- 
red on the who] ■ line of the road. 

The scenery of White River is grand 
and beautiful beyond description. Es- 
pecially is this true of the rapids, which 
are a succession of cataracts and water- 
falls for over twenty-five miles. The riv- 
er is very crooked, and the views are in 



hundred and twenty-fire pounds. It was 
a glorious day's sport." 

Ashland, located on the southern shore 
of Chequamegon Bay, is three hundred 
and fifty-one miles from Milwaukee and 
four hundred and thirty-six from Chica- 
go. It is situated on a broad plateau 
sixty feet above the level of the bay, and 
is very popular as a Summer resort. It 
certainlv has everv natural ndvaiitiiye as 



m^i 






Wi»«coiiNiii < eiitral Uailruad JL» 

endless variety It is a grand trip to 
make at any time, but especially in Au- 
gust or September. 

As to the existence of trout in White 
Iliver, the following, giving an account 
of a party of six fishing the stream in 
1879, is taken from the Ashland Press: 
" Otir total catch for the day was four 
hundred and fifty. Weighing a lot of 
dead fish demonstrated that the average 
weight was half a pound each, or two 



uck, 15 6(> Icet long, As»Jilaud. 

a retreat from the dust and tumult of the 
cities. There is much in the vicii-ity of 
Ashland to attract the tourist, whether 
on pleasure bent or search of renewed i 
health. The scenery is pleasing, the air 
dry and exhilirating, the fishing is ex. 
cellent, the boating is unexcelle(i, and! 
the accommodations are equal to every 
possible demand, the tourist is delighted^ 
to find a first-class hotel, pleasahtjy sit- 
uated on the bank of Chequamegon Bay, 



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THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOUTIST'S GUWK 



and every convenience for his indulgence 
in the fine sport afforded in the vicinity 
awaiting- him. This hotel, which tokes 
the name of the bay, was built and is 
owned by the railroad company, but has 
been leased to Mr. Abner L. Ross, Jr., 
a thorough practical hotel operator and 
able to conduct it in a first-class numuer, 
I ill' object of the company simply being 



to he had at points accessible by the 
Wisconsin Central; but in doing so the 
route will have to be retraveled: 

" Tlie line passes through the central portiou 
of Wisconsin, starting from Milwaukee and 
running northwesterly to Menasha, at the 
head of Lake Winnebago; here an ahvindance 
of fair fishing may be had, and pickerel, perch, 
and bass can be harvested in satisfactory 
quantities, though to the sportsman who re- 




Tlio Clioqiiainoj 

to provide for those visiting the place 
the comfortsand conveniences of the most 
favored resorts. 

It may not be out of place to intro- 
duce here an article that appeared some 
lime since in The Chicago Field, which 
describes more minutely than any account 
we have vet seen the hunting and fishing 



on, Ashland. 

quires quiet and the speaking silence of the 
wild woods, it has no great attractions, as al- 
ready the noble army of tourists have claimed 
it for its own. South of Menasha tl e com - 
try is very much devoid of sport, as the pot 
hunter gives no bird nor beast a chance to in- 
crease or multiply. At Klkhart Lake, how- 
ever, there is some fair fishing to be had and 
some very pleasant country to ramble through 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 155 



but its charms to the enthusiastic fisherman 
or hunter are not surpassing. From Menasha 
the line runs west by north through a mag- 
nificent agricultural country, but in which we 
failed to ti::d any trace of a sportsman's para- 
dise. The ruffed grouse has been almost ex- 
terminated with the disappearing forests and 
has not yet been replaced by the musical Bob 
"White or prairie chicken. This condition is 
maintained almost to Stevens' Point, a now 
thriving and busy town of some 5,000 iuhac - 
tants. From ten to twelve mii&a trim u<'ie 
may be obtained some fair deer hunting, com- 
bined with ruffed grouse shooting, and In- 
dians can be procured as guides to lead the 
hunter to the best known resorts. Five 
miles south, on the Portage line, there is a 
splendid wild fowl marsh and the duck 
shooter may here revel in his favorite sport. 
Of course with so large a population it can- 
not be expected that Stevens' Point can afford 
the very best of sport close at hand, but still 
it is an admirable base of operations for lay- 
ing in a stock of groceries and heavy baggage 
for further progress up country. The pro- 
prietor of the Central Hotel, where the rail- 
road traveler stops for his meals, is a sports- 
man at heart, and will give anxious enquirers 
his knowledge of what to do, how, and where 
to do it. 

Some two years ago, Stevens' Point was 
the north-westerly bourne of civilization in 
this State, but the clearing hand of man has 
worked onward till for many miles the 
neigliborhood of the railroad is fairly under 
tillage. But beyond the immediate neighbor- 
hood of the railway, the dark forests of pines 
rise to shut in the view, and as civilization is 
left behind, the prospects of the deer hunter 
increase. Up to Wisconsin Valley Junction 
the pine holds sway, except where the tamer- 
ack rises from the swamps, which are fairly 
numerous to this point ; but hence the land 
rises and the hardwood trees begin to assert 
their territorial right, and gradually gain the 
supremacy of the forests, which now become 
very fine. Yet the pine and hemlock are not 
' altogether absent and force themselves into 
I i^ominent notice wherever the soil is suitable 
I for their aggression. All along here the deer 
j shooting is reported to be good, with some 
1 ohkuoe of bagging sharp-tail and spruce 
I groiiee; but the best of the Fall and Winter 

\ 



deer ground begins at Spencer, a small sta- 
tion with a few stores. To the west of Spen- 
cer there are some farmers settled and from 
them we derived the news that deer are num- 
erous all about the woods. 

From Spencer to Chelsea is the happy hunt- 
ing ground — a fine hardwood country. After 
the Summer heat is over it is said to teem with 
deer, as they all come from the swamp lands 
and pine forests. A sportsman may stop off 
at any of the stations, especially at Spencer, 
Unity, Colby, Dorchester, Medford, or Chelsea, 
between the Isl of September and 1st of Jan- 
uary, with the assurance that there are deer 
in fair quantities anywhere out of the clearing; 
we have been assured that within four miles 
of any of these stations good deer shooting 
can be had, and it is the hunter's fault if a 
haunch does not return with him to camp 
after every sally forth into the woods. Here, 
too, ruffed grouse are to be found. There is 
very little shooting done, as there are few 
local huutors, and the farmers, railroad men, 
and lumberers have not much time for hunt- 
ing ; yet when they want " deer meat" the}' 
have uo trouble in procuring it. This part 
of the country is noteworthy for the infre- 
quency of marshes and the number of crystal 
springs of perennial flow. Besides the shoot- 
ing, there is fair fishing to be had on the Little 
Eau Plaine and Black rivers ; in fa^^ there is 
fishing to be got of some sort or oilier on all 
the many rivers that run through thiscounuy, 
and as the railroad runs along the dividing 
ridge there are streams running both ways to 
choose from. 

Westboro, however, is the first really good 
fishing point on the road. Three miles east 
of this station a chain of lakes begins with 
Silver Lake, which is the head water of Silver 
Creek that runs westward. Close beyond 
Silver Lake are the Rib River Lakes, which 
are the headwaters of the Rib River, one of 
the feeders of the Wisconsin River. In some 
of these lakes are splendid black bass and 
perch, and further on in the Spirit Lakes, are 
black bass and muskalonge. The fish are 
large and numerous, and at most times bite 
rapidly. Mr. A. S. Russell, of Westboro', is 
acquainted with the entire neighborhood, 
knows the best fishing lakes, and can tell any 
of our readers what actual weijihts offish he 
has hauled into town. ourselves, know 



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THE SPORTSMAN S AND TOURIST'S GUIDE. 



that a black bass of four pounds can be caught 
ia some of these Rib Lakes, and that they 
are magntiiceut eatuig. Arouud these lakes 
are many doer, for their fresh tracks were 
abundantly apparent along the margins and 
through the woods wherever a marshy tract 
gave our inexperienced eyes an opportunity 
of reading the signs which were elsewhere as 
distinct as to the continually practiced eye. 
There are grouse in the woods, for in our pros- 
pecting tramp, we flushed seventeen out of a 
small piece of marsh, three old birds and four- 
teen well-grown youngsters, and we have no 
doubt that the rest of the two covies were 
lying hid. Of all the points along the line for 
an all round sportsman, perhaps, Westboro' is 
the best, for within easy distance of the road 
and of a base of supplies is to be found good 
fishing, good deer shooting, and also some 
sport for the wing shot who may desire a day 
with his dogs after the grouse. There is in 
particular, one lake there upon whose borders 
we should pitch our camp. Surrounded on 
every side by a magnifioeDt forest, its clear 
depths lie; its surface ruffled only by the 
passing breeze or the splash of some finny 
denizen who has jumped for a fly. Oa the 
east side a firm, hard, shingle beach rises up- 
ward to a steep ridge, upon which there is 
much hard wood, though chiefly clothed with 
magnificent pines. On the other side, the 
shores are low and are partly of shingle at the 
points, and partly soft in the re-entering 
angles of the many curving margins. The air 
is redolent with the odor from the pines, bal- 
sams, and cedars; and the omnipresent mus- 
quito is markedly scarce ; a belter locality for 
the house of some sportsmen's club could not 
be, than on the ridge to the east of this lake. 
Brothers of the gun and rod, what more 
could you want ? Deer and grouse around 
you, fine fish at your very feet, many lakes 
close at hand, and dense trackless forsets on 
every side. Oh, the shade of St. Hubert ! 
"What a paradise for a lired business — weary 
sportsman to retire to for a fortnight's rest 
and relaxation, in September or October. 
Later than October, deer might not be found 
in any numbers around Westboro', for, as the 
forest is of softwood chiefly, they would have 
followed their habit aud gone south to the 
hardwood lands. 

If we bad inspected the country around 



Ogema, "Worcester, and Pliillips, we should 
have had probably to report as well ofii as of 
that at Westboro, though this latter is more 
suitable to the fisherman, on account of its 
numerous lakes. Phillips, however, can 
boast of some lakes and some bass and mus- 
kalouge fishing. 

Between Fifield aud Chippewa Crossing, the 
hardwood again predominates, and especially 
in the neighborhood of Butternut Creek. And 
it may be that this hardwood island in the 
ocean of pine forests may be, as that further 
south, a harbor for deer during the Fall and 
Winter. Butternut Creek has become recent- 
ly famous for its muskalonge fishing, as the 
fish are said to run up to forty pouuds and 
over; but as they are very peculiar gentlemen, 
and only bite at the luring bait at luicertain 
periods, it is hardly worth while to devote 
any considerable lime to wailing upon these 
fastidious fi.-hes. Still, an expedition by canoe 
down to the Flambeau main stream ought 
richly to repay the town- weary sportsman, as 
there can not fail to be plenty of deer as well 
as bears, wolves, and oiher wild animals in 
this well nigh unknown laud. That game, 
abounds in this tract we have the authority 
of the men who run the trains now, and of 
those who surveyed the country for the 
railroad. 

North of the Chippewa River, the pine, 
balsam, and tamerack reassert their sway, 
and this may be written down as a poor coun- 
try for Fall sport ; what may be there in the 
Summer we cannot say, for we could not dis- 
cover, and it looked to much like tha happy 
buzzing ground of the vigorous mosquito for 
us to venture upon any prospecting. 

As one draws near tlie Penoke iron range, 
the country becomes ridgy, and hardwood 
trees again become prominent, while brawling 
brooks take the place of crawling streams and 
marshes. This Penoke country looks a very 
gamey district, and the brawling brooks and 
streams, notably tiie main st:eam, looks very 
fishy ; but of the game character of the coun- 
try there was little to be discovered, as the 
inhabitants were not many aud were devoid 
of information on the point ; but as to the 
fish in the handsome river they were very 
decided ; there were none beyond a few chubs 
and the apparent beautiful trout and salmon 
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sumably because of tlie absence of fish ; but 
really we should think as a literal translation 
of its Indian name, as the noble savage could 
not well have navigated it, for of what we 
saw, there was more of rapids than still 
water. But though the main stream may be 
deceptive from a fisherman's point of view, 
someof its tributary creeks and streams are 
by no meflns so, for Marengo and White 
Rivers are said to be alive with fine brook 
trout, but of these two streams we will speak 
directly. 

Ashland is the present northern terminus 
of the Wisconsin Central line, and is situated 
almost at the extremity of Chequamegon Bay, 
and has been lauded to the skies of late as a 
fisherman's haven. There is no doubt about 
there being fish in the neighborhood of Ash- 
land. There are abundance of whitefish in 
the bay, and fine lake trout also, and over 
under the sandstone clifi's of the north shore 
there are some very fine brook trout ; but the 
fishing is not of that surpassing nature which 
the residents of the country about Ashland 
would wish us to believe. Under the bluffs 
on the north shore, a sportsman in luck may 
catch from fifteen to thirty pounds of fine trout, 
averaging one-half pound, and occasionally 
land a heavy fish ; but elsewhere in the im- 
mediate vicinity there is no sportsman's fish- 
ing. There are numerous brooks all round the 
country that contain more or less of brook 
trout of a diminutive description, and very 
hard to get at. The brooks run through the 
forest, and are enclosed in dense underbrush ; 
the fishing has to be done by hard scrambling 
with a four foot switch, and about the same 
amount of line; the only excitement is to 
avoid snags below water and the brushwood 
above, and to see if the likely hole contains 
anything beyond a fingerling. We went out 
with a party to one of these brooks, and cap- 
tured nine trout after an hour's preliminary 
tramp, and two hour's hard fighting against 
brushwood and mosquitoes. Six of these nine 
were less than six inches long, and five of 
them were returned to the water as unfit to 
keep, the sixth fingerling being kept as a 
matter of curiosity and comparison. By 1 
p. M., we had had enough of the paucity of 
fish and plentitude of buzzers, so left the so- 
called " Pleasant Valley" for the boat by the 
lake shore, where fish bites were as numerous 



as on the creek, and mosquito bites less fre- 
quent. By 5 p. M., the other two of the party 
arrived with forty-one fish between them, 
followed shortly by another couple of sports- 
men with twenty-one fish ; at least half of the 
sixty-two fish were as small or smaller than 
the fingerling I had reserved. Yet these same 
strings of sixty-five trout swelled to one-hun- 
dred in the notice of the catch which appeared 
in the local paper. From the remarks that 
were passed on the string of our party, and 
from various other strings that came to our 
notice, it was evident that we had not been 
severely out of luck. Now, as Ashland is 
four hundred and thirty-three miles from 
Chicago, and a full twenty-six hours journey, 
it cannot be said that " the game is worth the 
candle." There is some fair sport to be had 
on the Bruns Wieler Creek, a tributary of 
Marengo River, and he who wants a better 
string than the above should take the train 
down to Marengo, then go down south about 
one mile to the creek, and turn up it to Blad- 
der Lake, and make a fair bag. Again, the 
enterprising enthusiast may take a trip of 
twenty-six miles to Trout Lake, on White 
River, and, according to local tradition, take 
one hundred pounds weight of fish in the day. 
Here, too, we believe a sportsman has a chance 
of casting a fly and having a stand up fight 
with his game. 

As a great fishing resort, Ashland is some- 
what of a failure, but as a shooting ground 
for deer, bears, &c., and of wild fowl, should 
rank high, for we noticed many fresh deer 
tracks and saw several flocks of ducks, and 
were assured that durii:g September, and in 
fact, till snow flies, the wild fowl that abound 
in the marshes at the head of the bay and in 
the bay itself, are not to be counted. 

On the whole, we should recommend the 
Wisconsin Central Railroad and its country, 
to the sportsman because we believe there is 
abundance ot game within easy reach of the 
line and because it has not been overrun by 
sportsmen or pot hunters. It is within easy 
reach of Chicago, and consequently of the en- 
tire sporting community. The Milwaukee & 
St. Paul night train, draws the Wisconsin 
Central sleeper to Milwaukee, whence it is 
drawn by the night mail to the north. Halts 
of twenty minutes are made at Menasha, 
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traveler is landed fresh and in good condition tend every courtesy to a stranger ; and alto- 
at some station whence he can go out shooting | gether, the new district is worthy of atten- 




withoiit liaving to take camp equipage, as ac- I tion. At Stevens' Point, inquire of mine host 
coramodatiou can be got at each station. The of the Central Hotel, at Dorchester of D. 0. 
inhabitants are hospitable and willing to ex- I Miltimore, at "Westboro, of A. S. Russell, 



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at Ashland of Davis, the landlord of the Colby 
House ; these gentlemen are all ready and 
willing to afford information. 

Chequaraejion Bay, the northern ter- 
minus of the Wisconsin Central Railroad, 
is on an arm of Lake Superior, running 
southwest down among the Apostle Is- 
lands into the wilderness of Wisconsin. 
It is the basin that holds the waters of 
a score of beautiful streams, whose crys- 



Sioux, Sand, and Onion, and such lesser 
streams as rish,Whittlesey's,yanderven- 
ter's, and Silver creeks, and Trout Brook. 
All these and many others are excellent 
trout streams, on whose banks the worn 
business man can sit and angle to his 
heart's content. 

Houghton Point, distant about five 
miles, extends into the bay and rises to a 
heicrht of one hundred feet. Here there 




Grand Arcli, opposiitc Ashland, CIieqiiaiue'>,'oii Kny. 



tal, ice-cold waters are filled with spec- 
kled trout, black bass, and pickerel. It 
is the best harbor in the great Northwest, 
and is surrounded with vast forests of 
pine, and its atmosphere is as ethereal as 
Eden's, as hazy as an Indian Summer, 
as medicinal as that of Southern Europe. 
It is the home of the Chippewa nation. 
Here, within the radius of twenty miles, 
are some of the finest fishing grounds in 
America, including such rivers as White, 



is a charming little cascade in the centre 
of a grove of Norway pines. The views 
from Houghton Point are grand. They 
overlook the Apostle Islands and the 
open lake beyond. Around its rock 
bound shores, washed for centuries by 
tlie waters of Gutchee iRumee, lurk and 
hide the speckled trout. Many fine spec- 
imens are taken here every year. ' 

Bayfield, fifteen miles from Ashland, 
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named the village of fountains. Many 
of its gardens and lawns have beautiful 
fountains, throwing jets high in the air. 
These fountains are fed from springs that 
have burst from the hillsides, the water 
being conducted by pipes to every public 
building and dwelling in the town. Many 
of these fountains contain brook trout 
that have been captured and placed in 
them for exhibition. 



catching and packing gives employment 
to a large number of men. 

Montreal River is thirty miles east of 
Ashland. At this point is a fine water- 
fall eighty feet in height. Pleasure par- 
ties visit these places frequently by means 
of steam or sail yachts. 

The Apostle Islands, a group of is- 
lands which line the coast of Wisconsin 
for about forty miles, are twenty-four in 




Lone Rook 



Bayfield contains three hotels — 
" Smith's Hotel," kept by Capt. P. W. 
Smith; " The Fountain House," by J. B. 
Bono. It has many attractive features. 
Red Cliff is four miles north of Bayfield, 
and is the present home of the Red Cliff 
band of the Chippewa Indians. It is a 
beautiful place, well worth visiting. 

The principal business is that of man- 
ufacturing lumber and fishing. It ex- 
ports largely of whitefish and trout; their 



y field. 



number. Some of them are large and 
covered with lofty trees. They are fa- 
vorite camping grounds, and every Sum- 
mer the light of the camp fires after sun- 
set give ample evidence that sportsmen 
are there. 

Isle Royale, lying a little south of the 
entrance to Thunder Bay, is one hun- 
dred miles from Ashland. The ancient 
copper mines and implements of the pre- 
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here plainly to be seen by the scientist, 
the beautiful lakes and streams alive with 
delicious fish, the romantic inlets and 
bays extending for miles inland, yet so 
narrow that the rocky walls seem to over- 
hang but to crush the intruder, all com- 
bine their peculiar charms to delight the 
tourist. Isle Royale is distant but twen- 
ty-five miles from Prince Arthur's Land- 
ing, whence it is easiest visited. It can- 
not be excelled in its brook-trout, and 
the scenery is unsurpassed in grandeur. 

Thunder Bay on the north shore of 
Lake Superior, is about twenty-five miles 
in length, and from ten to fifteen miles 
wide, and into it flow many streams 
abounding in speckled trout. Thunder 
Cape on the east, is a most remarkable 
and bold highland, being elevated one 
thousand three hundred and fifty feet 
above Lake Superior. It rises in some 
places almost perpendicularly, presenting 
a basaltic appearance and bearing on its 
summit evidence of an extinct volcano. 
Another interesting object is Pie Island, 
so called from its formation. It is a huge 
stone eight hundred feet high, situated 
near the centre of the entrance to Thun- 
der Bay nortii of Isle Royale. The scen- 
ery along the north shore of Lake Supe- 
rior is everywhere wild and romantic, 
but especially about Thunder Bay and 
to the eastward. The entrance to Nepi- 
gon Bay is fifty miles east from Thunder 
Cape. 

But few white men have explored this 
stream, as the time required, together 
with the fatigue and hardship to be borne 
have deterred many from the attempt. 
The sportsman can conveniently go from 
Ashland to Prince Arthur's, and engage 
boats and guides from that point If the 
time of the tourist is limited he may en- 
joy in a three or four day's trip from 
Ashland, a delightful sale on the lake, 



and view from the deck of the steamer. 
Isle Royale, Pie Island, Thunder Cape 
and Bay, and other interesting features 
of the north shore, and also skirt the 
south shore from Eagle River and Har- 
bor on Keweenaw Point westward, the 
steamer touching at Houghton, Hancock, 
and Ontonagon on its return to Ash- 
land. 

Fort William, a post of the Hudson 
Bay Company, is situated near the mouth 
of the Kaministiquia River, which flows 
into Thunder Bay six miles southwest of 
Prince Arthur's. The stream, like all the 
rivers on the north shore, is filled with 
rapids, and at some distance above Fort 
William there is a beautiful fall of water 
two hundred feet in height. 

EAU CLARE, WISCONSIN. 

Ean Clare, Wisconsin, is regarded by 
a gentleman who has lived in that sec- 
tion for the past sixteen years, as the 
sportsman's paradise. Large game, such 
as deer and bear, have always been plen- 
ty and are yet, and as for chickens and 
grouse, that country is hard to beat. 
Trout are found in every stream, al- 
though some of them have been over- 
fished. A party of four gentlemen, who 
were visiting some of the lumber-camps 
about eighty-five miles northeast of Eau 
Clare, caught four hundred trout in two 
hours' time out of some ponds that had 
been formed by placing dams across a 
creek in order to float logs down in the 
Spring. The trout were large, and aver- 
aged about half a pound each. It is im- 
possible to get nearer than twelve miles 
of these streams with a team in Summer. 
Eau Clare can be reached via Chicago, 
Minneapolis & St. Paul Railway, and 
the train that leaves Chicago at 9 p. m. 
will land passengers at destination in 
time for dinner next day. 



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GAME FIELDS AND ANGLING WATERS OF ARKANSAS. 



Arkansas game may be divided into 
two classes-local and migratory. The mi- 
gratory portion of the game may be sub- 
divided into such as come to stay all Win- 
ter, aud such as merel) pass us on their 
long Spring and Fall journey. To the 
former subdivision belong many of the 
ducks, to the latter the geese. Most of 
the local game is semi-migratory ; that is, 
it moves about and changes location ac- 
cordingly as the mast hits or misses, al- 
ways keeping an eye to the main chance, 
passing from upland to bottomland, from 
open woods to canebrake, as the food 
supply requires. It always happens when 
either deer, bear, or turkey are unusual- 
ly plenty in any locality, the others will 
not be far away. Arkansas has an area 
of more than 50,000 square miles and a 
population of less than half a million- 
less than ten to the square mile, rather 
unequally distributed in town aud coun- 
try — the towns far outnumbering the 
country districts in the matter of growth. 
The State, for the purposes of a brief ac- 
count of its game resources, may be di- 
vided into four sections: the Northeast, 
Northwest, Southwest, and Southeast, 
each possessing distinctive characteris- 
tics. 

The northeast portion of the State ex- 
tends southward to White River aud 
westward to Black River, and borders 
on the State of Missouri and the Missis- 
sippi River. It is, as a rule, low and 
swampy, possessing heavy timber aud 
heavy canebrakes. The "sunk lands" 
constitute a considerable portion of this 
part of the State. It is traversed by in- 
numerable sloughs and has many lagoons 
and cypress swamps. There is a range 
of low hills running through it, known as 
Crowley's Ridge, The general direction 
of the ridge is from northwest to south- 



east; it terminates at Helena on the 
Mississippi River. The principal rivers 
other than those named, are St Francis, 
L'Aaguille — pronounced " Laugell" — 
Bayou de View, and Cache, all sluggish; 
chocolate-colored streams, mere ribbons 
in dry weather, immense floods when up. 
These streams and their tributaries, as 
well as the lakes, or lagoons, are well 
stocked with black bass, pickerel, all 
sorts of perch, and such coarse fish as 
drum, buffalo, and cat ad nmiseum. 
As might be inferred, this vast region is 
alive with game, and owing to the inac- 
cessibility of a portion of it in the Win- 
ter and Spring months, serves as a sort 
of a game preserve. It is more sparsely 
populated than other portions of the 
State. Deer and bear abound, and it is 
not long since elk were known to exist in 
the vicinity of the sunk lands. There 
are large areas of fertile land, elevated 
just above the regions of eternal wet, and 
these are the sites of such settlements as 
have been made. By the use of light 
boats nearly the whole of this region 
might be traversed. That it is capable 
of yielding the finest of sport may readi- 
ly be inferred. In the late Fall aud Win- 
ter months couutle&s millions of ducks 
and geese literally cover the waters. The 
far-famed Swan Lake is situated in this 
section. In the western part of this re- 
gion the proportion of dry land grows 
greater. Here deer, bear^ and turkeys 
are found in their native simplicity. 
Tradition tells of wild turkeys breeding 
with the tame fowl of the barnyard. 
Parallel with, and a few miles from 
Black River, flows Cache, through a ver- 
itable sportsman's paradise. 

Bob White is here with his cheering 
note, not in great abundance, but suffi- 
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are plentiful at times, but don't tarry 
long. There are a great many fur-bear- 
ing animals throughout the entire region. 
Swans and geese tarry awhile — some- 
times all Winter. A full and detailed 
description of this quarter of the State 
would make this ai'ticle too long. 

Nortiiwest Arkansas extends from 
Black River westward to the Indian Ter- 
ritory. Immediately on emerging from 
the Black River bottom, going west, one 
comes to upland, then hills, then moun- 
tains. The surface is diversified, how- 
ever, and there is some prairie. Water- 
fowl are not so abundant as in the part 
first described. The country is better 
settled. There is, however, a broad ex- 
panse of waste land, unbroken wilder- 
ness, and of course abundance of game. 
Inseasoi.'S when the mast fails in the low- 
lands and " hits " in the hills, deer, bear, 
and turkeys are found here . without 
trouble. The streams are rapid and 
clear, and fishing bears a closer resem- 
blance to sport. Black bass, jack sal- 
mon, striped bass, pickerel, and all sorts 
of perch are found. There being more 
small grains raised than in other parts of 
the State, quail are consequently more 
abundant. 

Southwest Arkansas lies between the 
Arkansas River and the Louisiana line, 
extending far enough east to embrace 
the town of Hot Springs. It is moun- 
tainous in places, but has more water 
courses than the part just described. In 
the matter of game it i-esembles the 
Northwe? t, but has also some waterfowl. 
The fishii'g is reported not so good as in 
other parts of the State. There are, 
however, localities that form an excep- 
tion to the general rule. 

The southeast part of the State lies 
south and east of Little Rock, having 
Lower White River for its northern 



boundary. It abounds in quail, turkeys, 
deer, bear, and has a fair supply of wa- 
terfowl. It has immense canebrakes and 
some extensive prairies. On the latter is 
to be found as good prairie chicken shoot- 
ing as the United States affords. The 
area, however, is limited to the two coun- 
ties of Prairie and Arkansas Here are, 
also sandhill cranes. Plover and snipe 
in countless millions in their season visit 
these prairies. In the river bottoms 
close to these prairies are immense cane- 
brakes, where deer and" bear may be 
found in large numbers. 

To an unstinted abundance of game, 
which by judicious legislation is capable 
of being fostered and preserved, or even 
increased to any desirable extent, may be 
added a Winter climate as near perfect 
as any in the Union — just cold enough to 
lay insects and reptiles, and warm enough 
to make it pleasant to be out all day 
long. Surely these afford a most potent 
reason for the most abounding thankful- 
ness. The stranger sportsman will find 
in Arkansas a generous old fashioned 
hospitality, which while it " vaunteth not 
itself," is none the less sincere. In a 
word, genuine old Virginia hospitality, 
with the ostentation, the wind, the " old 
Firginyah," left out. The people of the 
State are Southern in their manners and 
habits of thought; but they have imbib- 
ed much of that " broad spirit of free- 
dom," and possess in an eminent degree 
the " game " qualities attinbuted by Irv- 
ing to the frontiersmen of the West. 
Plain and unassuming, but hearty and 
cordial — rough, it may be in exterior, 
but sound at heart; there are no people 
among whom the sportsman, whatever 
party or creed, or if he have no party or 
creed, will feel more at home. 

In touching upon the river system of 
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very statistical. A glance at the map 
will show that the Mississippi River flows 
along the greater part of the eastern 
boundary of the State, and the Red Ri- 
ver of Louisiana along a small part of 
the southwestern. 

Beginning then in the northeast, the 
St. Francis flows out of the State of Mis- 
souri through lowlands, cypress swamps, 
canebrakes, &c., in a generally souther- 
ly direction, and empties into the Missis- 
sippi. This river is navigable by steam- 
boats for a portion of the year. It is 
stocked with all the coarser varieties of 
fish, and has some bass, and many perch 
of different varieties. Then comes L'Au- 
guilla, a sluggish and unimportant 
stream Proceeding westward, Crow- 
ley's Ridge, a low range of hills, is cross- 
ed, and Cache River reached. It is a 
thin, chocolate colored stream, with im- 
mense " bottoms " and cypress swamps 
— all of which are, at certain seasons, 
filled to overflowing with dirty water. 
The stream rises in Missouri, and empties 
into the White River, in Monroe county. 
It is well stocked with fish, and flows 
through a notable game country, much 
of which is in its native wilderness state. 
Deer, turkeys, and bear abound along the 
course of this river, and wild fowl in as- 
tonishing numbers visit its sloughs and 
shallows. A portable boat would be a 
great help in this region. Going still 
westward the Black River is reached, a 
fine stream of dark colored water — ris- 
ing in the mountain country of Missouri, 
flowing southward through the south- 
eastern part of the State, and emptying 
into the White River at Jacksonport. 
The stream is rough and rapid in its up- 
per course, and smooth, but not slug- 
gish, in its lower. It is well stocked 
with game fish, as well as the coarser 
varieties, and there are some notable 



trolling places along its course. Both 
the main stream and its tributaries are 
noted for the hunting grounds in their 
vicinity. Wild fowl, in their annual mi- 
grations, pursue the course of this river. 
The stream is navigable for steamboats 
to, and into, Missouri. Packets ply reg- 
ularly as far as Pocahontas, Arkansas. 
The superintendent of this line never ne- 
glects an opportunity to place a sports- 
man under obligations to him. Being of 
the fraternity himself, he calls it " being 
good to his own sort." At Jacksonport, 
the Black River is joined by a stream of 
the clearest water in the State. This 
river rises in the Boston Mountains in 
the northwest corner of the State, and 
flows northeast into the Missouri, thence 
southeast again into Arkansas State, and 
eventually into the Mississippi. This 
stream is navigable, and actually navi- 
gated by steamboats to Batesville all the 
year, and as far as Forsythe, Missouri, 
during the Winter and Spring months. 
It is abundantly stocked with game and 
food fishes. Its banks abound in good 
hunting grounds, and the mountain scen- 
ery along the upper waters is exception- 
ally fine, and worthy of far more atten- 
tion than it receives. Tributary to this 
are several rivers of lesser note: as Little 
Red, Sycamore, Buff"alo Fork, King's 
River, &c., all well stocked with fish, and 
all running through noted game regions. 
In White River and its tributaries, the 
Ohio River salmon or glass-eyed pike, 
and the croppie or speckled perch, are 
taken in greater numbers than elsewhere 
in the State — or in the world for that 
matter. 

In the southern part of the State, trib- 
utary to the Arkansas, are the Petit 
Jean (pronounced Petty John), and the 
Fourche la Fave (Foosh la Fay) rivers; 
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River, Washita, Bayou Moro, Saline, and 
Bayou Bartholomew. The most consid- 
erable of these, the Washita, is naviga- 
ble for steamboats — as indeed are all the 
others to a somewhat less extent. It 
will be seen that this is preeminently a 
laud of navigable streams — and conse- 
quently of steamboats — so that it is com- 
paratively easy to reach any desired 
point in the State. To this may be add- 
ed, fair railway facilities; but the prime 
favorite with the native population is the 
steamboat. 

In the bottom lands, along the lower 
course of these rivers, and within the dis- 
trict covered by their annual overflow, is 
a system of lakes, lagoons, or ponds, us- 
ually lying low — anything but inviting 
in aspect — surrounded by cypress trees 
of large size, possessing and needing no 
long streamers of moss to intensify and 
set off their unspeakable dreariness. The 
sportsman soon becomes habituated to 
these gloomy scenes, and learns to find 
not only fish and game, but pleasure in 
exploring them. They usually have one 
bluff ( but not very high), and one low 
or sloping bank. The high bank is not 
unfrequently covered with a luxuriant 
growth of cane, furnishing unlimited sup- 
plies of fishing-rods, as well as affording 
cover and couceilment to the careful 
hunter. The lakes are generally suppos- 
ed to be old river beds, and are uniform- 
ly of the width of the parent stream. 
They are resorted to by myriads of wild 
fowl in the Winter months. Some of 
them are quite deep, and many are fed by 
cool springs at the bottom. These lat- 
ter are exceptionally well stocked with 
fish. 

To give any adequate account of the 
number, extent, and resources of these 
lagoons would far exceed the allowable 
limits of this paper. It is only neces- 



sary to add that they are as a general 
rule stocked with all the game fishes of 
the section — pickerel, bass, and perch. 
The lakes along these streams are well 
stocked with choice specimens of the bass 
and perch tribes. 

To the geologist and the student of 
natural history, Arkansas presents a field 
full of rare attractions. But this article 
is intended only for the sportsman. 



UNFREQUENTED REGIONS OF 
THE ADIRONDACKS. 

There are a few localities in the north- 
ern portion of the Adirondacks, most of 
Avhich have been comparatively little fre- 
quented by sportsmen from abroad. 
There are but two roads in the country, 
running north and south, reaching up 
into the heart of the Adirondack region. 
One is from Malone, running directly 
south to Paul Smith's on St. Regis Lake, 
and past Meacham Lake; the other from 
Moira and Brushton, fourteen miles west, 
runnning directly south and parallel to 
the other to Blue Mountain. After go- 
ing ten miles south there is no road cross- 
ing from one to the other, and all the 
country between the two is an unbroken 
wilderness. All the parties going in at 
the northern end of the Adirondacks, or 
nearly all, have gone in by the Malone 
road, and of course that portion in the 
western part of the country has not been 
nearly as much hunted as the eastern, 
except in the extreme south end, which 
has been hunted and fished over by par- 
ties fitted out from St. Regis and Sara- 
nac lakes, and by parties coming in by 
Tupper's Lake. The road that runs 
south from Moira, ends at Blue Moun- 
tain, twenty-four miles south. It is near- 
ly opposite Meacham Lake on the Ma- 
lone road, about fifteen miles west of 
there and about twenty-five miles north- 



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west from St. Regis Lake, or Paul 
Smith's house. There is a house there 
kept by Henry Phelps, with all kinds of 
accommodation for sportsmen, and 
charges reasonable — $1 per day for 
board, and $1.50 for guides. He will 
fit out parties with camping rigs, boats, 
&c., who wish to go to some of the 
streams and ponds in the vicinity. The 
house is large and commodius; he sets a 
good table, has good beds, and is much 
better liked than the former proprietor, 
Merrill, who died a year or so ago. The 
foot of the Sixteen-Mile Level of the St. 
Regis River is near the house. Boats 
can run up sixteen miles on this, and it 
is a splendid place for deer and trout, 
with a bear occasionally. The localities 
which are mostly new, and have been but 
very little visited, will all have to be 
reached by way of the Blue Mountain 
route. Wolf Pond, eight miles south- 
west from Blue Mountain House, is but 
very little visited. The upper branches 
of the Parishville River ruu close to it, 
and abound in trout, some of a large size, 
and in any decent kind of a day one can 
catch all the trout he can carry. Deer, 
bears, and panthers are to be found there. 
The river there is fifteen to twenty-five 
yards wide, and there are levels of still 
water and rapids. The levels have to be 
fished from a boat. 

There is another branch a short dis- 
tance below which is smaller, but it ig 
full of trout, and has never been fished 
by a dozen different persons. There is a 
very good shanty at the pond, made of 
logs, with a bark roof, with a door and 
small glass window, belonging to a trap- 
per who traps there in the late Fall. 
All the country west of Blue Mountain 
is an unbroken wilderness for miles, until 
you come to the back settlements in St. 
Lawrence county, and there are several 



ponds and streams which have no name 
and are only frequented by trappers and 
a few still-hunters. Cavanaugh Pond is 
only three miles from Blue Mountain 
House, and is a great resort for deer and 
other animals; but it is not much of a 
place for trout. Many deer were killed 
there in 1879 by only a few persons hunt- 
ing. Mr. Phelps keeps a boat there, 
and has a rough shanty built on the 
shore. All this country west of the road 
for eight or ten miles north of the Blue 
Mountain House has never been visited 
but by very few, if any, sportsmen. It 
is out of the way of parties coming from 
the large sporting houses in the eastern 
section of the Adirondacks, and the only 
way they can reach it is to come down 
the St. Regis River, through Sixteen- 
Mile Level, and this would be a trip no 
guides would like to undertake. 

Three miles uj) the Sixteen-Mile Level 
on the St. Regis River, Quebec Brook 
empties, and about five miles up the 
brook is Muddywaska Pond. It is a 
rough road into it from the river, and a 
boat has to be carried more than half the 
way. It is a good long day's tramp to 
go there from the Blue Mountain House. 
The pond itself is not much, but there is 
a level above and below it of about four 
miles in length each, with deep water and 
many trout of large size. It is a famous 
place for deer and other animals. It has 
been visited by some few from abroad, 
who went in with guides from McCol- 
lom's on the Meacham Road, but few 
have been in, on account of the distance 
from any road. A gentleman who has 
been there several times says he always 
had good success. At the foot of the 
lower level there are a few beavers jet, 
and one is occasionally seen. 

Four miles below the Blue Mountain 
House, on the river, is Spring Cove 



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House, at the head of another level; it 
is owned by Den Smith. He keeps 
sportsmen and acts as guide himself, and 
is a good one. He will furnish boats and 
provisions and everything for camping 
out, and will go anywhere with parties 
at a reasonable price. He is a good 
cook, and understands all about hunting 
and fishing. His address is the same as 
that of Mr. Phelps, St. Regis Falls Post 
Office, Franklin county, N. Y. Parties 
going to either had better write a week 
or so in advance, and if to Mr. Smith he 
will meet them at St. Regis Falls. His 
place is some distance off the main road. 
About five miles lower down the river 
is the Humphrey Level, eight to nine 
miles in length. Several families live 
near there, and will take a limited num- 
ber of boarders. Three or four families 
live in that vicinity, among whom is old 
Bill Edwards, who has killed more large 
game than any one man in the northern 
part of the Adirondacks. He has killed 
seven catamounts or panthers, and bears 
and wolves by dozens. He acts as guide, 
and will go with parties to any locality, 
but cannot furnish anything but boat and 
dogs. Mr. Dimmick, a resident there, 
will always accommodate a few boarders 
at seventy-five cents per day, and throw 
in the use of his boat. It would be a 
good place for two or three to spend a 
week or more, who could handle a boat 
themselves, and fish and enjoy the moun- 
tain air at a small expense. It is about 
fifteen miles from Moira, and if they 
wished to go off to any other place they 
could get Edwards for guide, or some of 
the others there. There are several 
small ponds near there in which trout are 
quite numerous; besides, good trout-fish- 
ing can be had in the ri^er. The east 
branch of the St. Regis empties into the 
Middle Branch near the foot of this level, 



and along both streams is a great place 
for deer. It was on the East Branch, 
near here, that a party of three killed 
fourteen deer and a bear in one week, in 
JS^ovember, 1878. Up the East Branch, 
through its whole length to where it 
rises in Meachara Lake,, is an unbroken 
wilderness, except one place where it runs 
near a traveled road. This is at the old 
Sandford & Skinner Saw Mill, at the 
foot of a level of eight or ten miles. A 
Mr. Sampson keeps a house there and 
boats, and has several grown up boys 
who act as guides; it is a good locality 
for deer-hunting, and trout-fishing also, 
and is a great place for ruffed grouse; 
in fact they are plenty all over the North 
Woods, clear down to the village of' 
Moira. 

The Blue Mountain House is situated 
in a fine locality, and the view from it is 
the best of any sporting establishment 
ever visited in the mountains. One can 
look from its door over a tract of coun- 
try sixty miles in extent. White Face 
Mountain, in Essex county, is in plain 
sight, also Debar Mountain beyond 
Meacham, and the whole chain of moan- 
tains in the northeast and St.' Regis iu 
the southeast. It is the best place lor 
the sportsman to go to that is easy of 
access, and to fit out from to go to other 
localities not much frequented, to camp 
out, and the cost will not be one half 
what it would be at St. Regis Lake and 
other places east and southeast Of 
course they have not all the extras to be 
found at Paul Smith's or Martin's and 
other older establishments, but plenty of 
good food and good beds, with board by 
the week for $4. 

There are one or two places on the 
Malone Road to St. Regis Lake, where 
much better hunting and fishing can be 
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establishments or hotels. McCollom's, 
about half way between Meacham and 
St. Regis Lake, is yet a grand good 
place to go for deer or trout. 

Osgood River and Hay's Brook, close 
by, are good trout streams. Hay's 
Brook is the best stream for trout in the 
hot days in July and August, as the wa- 
ter is cold on account of the many springs 
along its banks, and trout run up it from 
Osgood River and Meacham Lake. (The 
Osgood River enters into Meacham 
Lake). There are some large trout in 
it, but the average run from eight inches 
to twelve inches in length, with some up 
to eighteen inches and twenty inches. 
Muddywaska Pond lies west of McCol- 
lom's some eight miles, and a few parties 
go in this way. Spring Pond, Chain 
Ponds, Baker Pond, and Rice Pond are 
all within two miles of the house. Mr. 
McCollom will accommodate a few 
boarders at from $1 to $1.25.. He has 
a large farm, keeps forty or fifty head of 
cattle, has a large ice house and is a good 
hunter. Quebec Pond and Polusby, Jr., 
are six and seven miles southwest of 
there. They are frequented consider- 
able by parties from St. Regis Lake. 
On the whole McCollom's is considered 
the best place for hunting and fishing on 
that road. The head of Meacham Lake 
is only four miles north, and parties wish- 
ing to go there will take his boat down, 
and they can fish and hunt there if they 
like, as he often does. Meacham Lake 
affords better sport, some say, than any 
of the old sporting establishments, or 
rather localities, which have had hotels 
near them for any length of time to ac- 
commodate sportsmen. Mr. Fuller has 
taken considerable pains to keep the lake 
stocked with young trout, and has a reg- 
ular hatching establishment of his own. 
Salmon trout are caught there weighing 



from twenty-five to thirty youndsin May 
quite frequently by trolling. 

For further particulars address A. C. 
McCollom or A. R. Fuller, Duane, 
Franklin county. New York. 

Ragged Lake, the State Dam on Sal- 
mon River, and the bend on same river 
above Titusville, are all good places for 
game and trout, but being near Malone 
they are overrun and fished and hunted 
to death soon after the seasons open, the 
same as it is in vicinity of St. Regis and 
other lakes and ponds in that neighbor- 
hood. The old Ntrtliwest Bay Road, 
running across the Lower St. Regis dis- 
trict from east to west, or northwest and 
southeast, is not now in use, only as a 
foot-path, except at the western end. It 
has grown up with bushes and filled in 
with fallen trees so as not to be passable 
with a wagon. 



SARDIS, MISSISSIPPI. 

Hunting is not very good just imme- 
diately around Sardis, but by going out 
five or six miles, a day can be passed in 
the field very pleasantly, and sometimes 
pretty good bags are brought in. If a 
person wants to try his hand on larger 
game, such as bears, panthers, wildcats, 
deer, wolves, or turkeys, he can do so by 
going into Tallahatchie or the Mississippi 
River bottoms, which are but a short 
half day's drive from Sardis. Or if the 
lover of piscatorial sport wishes to suppy 
his table with trout, he has only to go 
about, say from eight to eighteen miles, 
to a number of clear lakes in the above 
mentioned bottoms, and he surely will 
not be disappointed. 

Sardis is located in Panola county, on 
the line of the Mississippi & Tennessee 
Railroad, and is a village of some two 
thousand inhabitants. It has one hotel, 
where accommodations can be had. 



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THE LAND OF NORTHERN 

Not many years have elapsed since 
the seeker after health and pleasure ac- 
cepted the gospel that America had 
within her own borders everything re- 
quisite to ensure the complements of 
life's voyage, and began to realize how 
unnecessary was the customary Euro- 
pean tour, and how easy of discovery 




CAMP LIFE IN THE MICHIGAN NORTH 

the spots possessing the attributes long 
iscribed only to Ponce de Leon's Foun- 
tain of Perpetual Youth; and the vast 
irmy of visitors to the numerous Summer 
•esorts found along the seashore, the isl- 
luds of the St. Lawrence, Saratoga, 
fee, fully attest the soundness of this 
issertion. Passing years bring increase 
■)f thousands to receive the benefit of 



MICHIGAN. 

rest and ease ; gradually the swell ex- 
tends until wider range is required, and 
the mighty genius of enterprise turns its 
attention to outlying territory for fur- 
ther conquests. Slowly recognition is 
accorded the fact that greater comfort 
is now obtainable elsewhere than is 
found py the most earnest seeker within 
the esteemed and 
crowded haunts of 
wealth and fashio n 
and each succeeding 
season witnesses a 
larger number of those 
old-time habitues of 
the resorts of the East, 
forsaking their ancient 
walks for the " fresh 
fields and pastures 
new" of the North- 
west. It is no longer 
necessary to trave 
thousands of miles to 
the mountains or sea 
shore as the only place 
at which to recreate 
find pleasure, and in- 
vigorate health, for the 
simple reason that the 
great opening up of the- 
now country by our 
vast railroad system 
has brought to light' 
and easy access num.. 
berless places where health and pleasure 
can be found. 

In a train of natural thought the 
northern country presents itself as more 
than ordinarily endowed with fascina- 
tion, attractive alike to the sportsman — 
aware that the dense forests afford am-- 
ple shelter to the infinite variety of 
game ; to the disciple of Izaak. Walton. 



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— knowing that the crystal streams of 
the north contain in endless numbers all 
species of the finny tribe known to the 
American pisciculturist ; and to the in- 
valid — recognizing the efficacy of clear, 
bracing air, and pure spring water. All 
this is claimed for the beautiful Penin- 
sula State, Michigan, divided and almost 
surrounded by the great lakes, cut up 
by innumerable lakelets 
and streams abounding 
with fish ; with hi 1-', 
valleys, and immense for- 
ests crowded with game, 
offering a tempting field 
to theseeker after spoi t. 

A glance at a map of 
North America will sat- 
isfy the most scei)tic 
that this State — not 
alone that the fact 
being so nearly sur- 
rounded by water, there- 
from obtaining in grcnt 
measure the cousfquent 
coolness of atmosphrrc 
so necessary to comfort 
(luring the heated term; 
but from being one uf 
the most northerly 
States in the Union (41 
deg. 40 min. to 47 dc 
tude), should be known everywhere as 
eminently fitted to become the future re- 
sort of millions seeking that relief from 
the discomforts of heat ; tliat relaxation 
from the turmoil of business cares ; and 
that ease and health for the overtasked 
and worn system, the sense of which the 
season called Summer brings forward so 
strongly to the recognition. 

Believing the popular verdict will be 
rendered emphatically in favor of the 
correctness of this assumption, you are 
asked to again glance at the map, and 



from Cincinnati on the Ohio River, trace 
an air line through Eastern Indiana and 
Michigan from base to apex — passing 
through Richmond, Fort Wayne, Kala- 
mazoo and Grand Rapids en route. 
This line represents the Grand Rapids 
& Indiana Railroad, and the claims of 
the region penetrated by the northern 
section of this railroad is here presented 




30 min. lati- 



ACH AT BAY VIEW. 



that you may give it your consideration. 
To the tourist, the wild and beautiful 
scenery will render a visit most agree- 
able, while to the sportsman unusual at- 
tractions are oflFered. Pleasant drives 
lead away through the almost unbroken 
forests, where the laurel spreads its 
wealth of blossoms in the Spring, where 
the delicate trailing arbutus makes the 
earth doubly glorious and fragrant, and 
resinous hemlocks and pines give forth 
their aroma and sigh their ceaseless mu- 
sic. The brook trout and grayling 
abound in endless numbers in the many 



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m 



rivers and rivulets, and the larger va- 
rieties of game fish in the innumerable 
and lovely lakes. Deer are frequently 
seen browsing on the herbage or bound- 
ing through the woods; rabbits scamper 
along the roads ; pheasants and ruffed 
grouse awaken the echoes with their 
drumming; silent woodcock and rushing 
partridge whirr away from approaching 
humanity to seek more secluded re- 



affords much relief to the wearied sys- 
tem. 

The healthfulness of this country is 
attested by thousands who have tried the 
wonderful purity of the atmosphere and 
partaken of its clear, ice-cold spring 
'water. The climate is especially noted 
as a sanitarium for hay-fever and bron- 
chial affections, and great numbers an- 
nually visit this region to escape from, 




CAMPING OUT. 



treats ^ and the wary duck dips deep in 
the translucent waters and hies away; 
while frequent specimens of the c(enns 
ursa are to be met with in the deeper 
recesses of the woods by those desiring 
to test their skill and courage. The 
<jool, bracing atmosphere, free from all 
impurities, is especially adapted to the 
requirements of the invalid, and a short 
sojoom invariably proves beneficial and 



and get relief for, these maladies. No 
healthier section can be found in North 
America; there is no stagnant water, 
and fever and ague and kindred diseases 
are scarcely known. 

For the purpose of convincing those 
who, having been so long wedded to the 
view that there was but one good fishing 
ground in the country, and that to be 
found far toward the eastern slope, the 



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the following is quoted from the Report 
of the Michigan State Fish Commis- 
sioner : " In the list offish (?) indigenous 
to Michigan, not the least in affection- 
ate interest is the speckled trout. In- 
vestigations verify the fact that speckled 
trout not only exist here, and that, too, 
in many portions of the State, but that 
they are here in all the inimitable in- 
vestiture of their prime and glory. Speci- 
mens have been shown the Commission, 
obtained from the 
streams of Northern 
Central and Northern 
Michigan, equaling in 
every respect their New 
England, New York, 
Pennsylvania and 
Rocky Mountain con- 
geners." 

While trout are taken 
with numerous grub 
and angle worms, still 
quite often all these will 
fail and a brilliant col- 
ored imitation of a fly 
lure them ; and herein 
to a great extent con- 
sists the science of the 
fisherman, in judging 
what style of fly is ap- 
propriate to a peculiar state of the at- 
mosphere or locality. The brightness or 
dullness of the day ; the clearness or 
otherwise of the water, and the appetite 
of the fish, have all to be taken into 
consideration ; indeed, the fisherman 
cannot have too great a variety of flies 
A party of seven gentlemen from Bloom- 
ington, Illinois, guests of the Lake View 
House (Mullet Lake), captured three 
hundred and eighty-three of the speckled 
beauties in three days, during July, 1879. 
Judge Bobo, and two other gentlemen 
from Decatur, Indiana, caught one hun- 



dred trout on August 3d, near their 
camp on the Jordan, about two and a 
half miles from the mouth A party of 
nine Traverse City gentlemen visited 
Glen Lake, and captured one thousand 
and fifty-two of this delicious fish in a 
few hours ; and, discouraged by the vo- 
racity of the numbers that seemed to 
demand an opportunity to be victimized, 
beat a hasty retreat. The KalkasJcaian 
of August 15th, 1879, says: " On Tues- 




PINK KIVEK, CHARLKVOIX. 

day last Mr. Wesley Street caught a 
speckled trout in the Boardraan River, 
above town, that weighed three pounds, 
and three others weighing from fifteen 
to seventeen ounces each." Any num- 
ber of incidents could be given of large 
catches, but the above will sufiBce, 

The Fish Commissioner thus speaks of 
the grayling: "The American grayling 
is peculiarly a Michigan fish, our waters, 
so far as definitely ascertained, being the 
sole and fortunate possessor of this 
greatly admired, and, as many believe, 
the ' coming ' fish. Their habitat is the 



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Au Sable, the Muskegon, Hersey, Pine, 
Boardman — indeed, very many of the 
streams and rivers of Central and North- 
ern Michigan — possibly a majority of 
them — are believed to abound in the 
grayling. They have been caught, it is 
said, weighing four and a half pounds." 
Grayling, unlike the trout, do not 




BRIDGK OVER THE MANISTEE KIVER. 

hide beneath roots and logs, but lie 
motionless on the clear white sand 
and will rise from a depth of ten feet to 
what seems to them a delicate morsel, 
but which in reality may be nothing 
more than a " brown hackle," the most 
killing fly for the June fishing. (The 
"black gnat" is also good.) Like the 
trout, they will sometimes refuse to rise 
to the most tempting fly; then, if you 



wish, resort to angle worms or a bit of 
pigeon or red squirrel, and you will be 
pretty sure to take them. 

The Wexford county Pioneer, pub- 
lished at Manton, August 20th, 1879, 
has this: " The grayling, the peer of any 
brook trout that ever sported in the 
clear blue waters of Northern Michigan, 
or the waters of any other land, 
and by experienced sportsmen con- 
sidered the royal fish, is being 
taken in large numbers from the 
creeks and rivers in this vicinity. 
Mr. D. V. Emmons, our druggist, 
a few days ago, brought in from 
Slagle Creek, a few miles south 
and west of this village, about 
twenty-five pounds of the dainties 
— one of which weighed one and a 
half pounds — the result of a few 
hours' fishing." 

The past four years have wit- 
nessed extensive deposits of land- 
locked salmon in the numerous 
lakes of this region, and the wis- 
dom of such action on the part of 
the State Fish Commissioners has 
become more and more apparent, 
as now and again one of that spe- 
ecies has been speared in the wa- 
ters to which consigned. But a 
short time since one of these glo- 
rious fellows was speared in Log 
Lake (situated two miles from 
Kalkaska Station), which turned the 
scale at eight pounds, measuring twenty- 
eight inches in length. Several instances 
of like nature have been reported, and 
there can exist no question but that be- 
fore many seasons have marked their 
course, the lakes of Michigan will be 
teeming with this magnificent member c f 
the finny tribe. 

Extensive deposits of the fry of this 



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fish — California salmon — have been 
made in the inland lakes of Northern 
Michigan, and the grandest results are 
being made manifest, affording the cer- 
tainty that ere long this welcome stran- 
ger will be found greeting the eye of the 
fisherman in noble struggles to escape 
the fateful hook. 

Of the black bass, the fish commis- 
sioner speaks in the following manner: 
'• This fish is found in almost every part 



salmon, 1,500 grayling, &c.; but it is 
impossible to give figures, showing 
the exact number of land-locked and 
California salmon, brook trout, grayling, 
whitefish (which fish, by the way, are 
becoming known as a " fly taker"), &c., 
deposited by the fish commissioners dur- 
ing the past year (1879) owing to the 
non-publication of report of that board 
other than biennually. 

In addition to the fish mentioned 




VIEW ON TORCU RIVER. 



of the State, in the lakes and rivers, and 
in waters greatly varying in size, depth, 
and temperature, ranking high with 
many both as game and food fish. 

During past years millions of various 
kinds of fish have been deposited in the 
waters of the State most suitable for 
their growth and propagation ; the sum 
total during 1878 reaching nearly five 
and a half millions, including 26,000 
land-locked salmon, 75,000 California 



above, all the inland rivers and lakes 
of the northern country furnish abundant 
supply of pike, muskalonge (which have 
been caught weighing as high as thirty 
pounds), pickerel, lake trout, &c., of the 
larger, and white, striped, and rock bass, 
perch, &c., of the smaller. 

The lake trout attains a great size, 
and instances are on record of catches of 
this fish of great weight and numbers. 
Two prominent business men of Grand 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. l^JS 



Rapids, caught ia Lake Michigan, near 
Charlevoix, in two hours, thirty-nine of 
this species, weighing three hundred and 
thirty pounds, the largest of which weigh- 
ed twenty-five and another twenty-four 
pounds. They fished in about three hun- 
dred and fifty feet of water, three miles 
from shore, under the guidance of an In- 
dian chief called Micksaba. On several 
other occasions, the same gentlemen were 




TRAVERSE CITT. 

quite successful at the same sport and 
made large catches. 

The merits of Northern Michigan as a 
game producing country have been long 
and favorably known to the great ma- 
jority of sportsmen, and it is probably 
unnecessary to speak at any length on 
this subject. It were well, perhaps, to 
state for general infornation, that the 
eternal forests of this territory furnish 
hiding places for the more than usual 
variety of light and heavy fur and fea- 



ther. Bears, deer, rabbits, squirrels, 
&c., among the animals; and ducks, 
geese, snipe, plover, pigeons, quail, wood- 
cock, rufied grouse, wild turkeys, phea- 
sants, partridges, &c., among the birds, 
would cause the safe conclusion that the 
hand of the benificent Creator had been 
indeed lavish, and sprinkled the vast 
woody fastnesses with enticing calls for 
the thousands whose delight it is to min- 
gle with silent Nature in 
her solitudes. It is learn- 
ed from the Cheboygan 
Tribune that a couple 
of sportsmen from that 
town spent a week dur- 
ing October at the head 
of Mullet Lake, hunting 
ducks, &c.; that they 
shot a goodly number of 
the mallard, teal, can- 
vas-back, &c,, which fre- 
quent that region to feed 
upon the abundant wild 
rice ; and that when tired 
of bagging ducks, they 
went into the woods and 
shot some of the plentiful 
supply of partridges. 

An enthusiastic cor- 
■espondent of the Lan- 
caster Gazette visited 
this sportsman's para- 
dise, and in writing home, says: " Deer 
are very abundant, grouse plentiful, rab- 
bits, partridges, ducks, and geese by the 
million, and the black bear is not a rarity 
by any means. For the rod and gun 
Michigan takes first rank of all the 
States." 

The Richmond Telegraph, of Septem- 
ber 25th, 1879, contained the following: 
" Sportsmen have commenced shooting 
pigeons and ducks around here ( Petos- 
key), and a week ago to-day some men 



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killed a bear at the foot of Bear Lake, 
wliich weighed three hundred and twen- 
ty pounds after it was dressed. " 

The following appeared in the Grand 
Rapids Eagls: " A party of four hunt- 
ers passed through the city this morn- 
ing ( November 27 ) on their return 
from a short hunting season up north, on 
the Grand Eapids & Indiana Railroad. 
They state that the woods are full of 



of a gentleman well known in sporting cir- 
cles, writing from the Traverse Region: 
" At daylight the next morning we were 
in the river, and never did we enjoy a 
morning better, for the hundreds of acres 
of wild rice were just full of ducks. Af- 
ter dinner, we shouldered our guns, 
and started out for partridges, and I 
know of no better country for that kind 
of game in the States. We bagged sev- 




BOTNE RIVER. 



game and hunters, and displayed eleven 
deer and two bears as their share. 
John Semon and party of five hunters, 
belonging to Allegan and vicinity, have 
returned ( December 6) from Fife Lake 
with nineteen deer as trophies of ten 
days' hunting in that neighborhood, and 
say, that had their dogs been good for 
tracking such game, they might have 
had a number of bears; the woods are 
alive with game." 

The following is taken from the letter 



eral. The next morning we changed 
our programme, and took our trolling 
hooks, and in about two hours' time, at 
the mouth of the Indian River, took a 
fifteen-pound muskalonge, and several 
pickerel weighing from two to six pounds 
each. It would be tedious to inflict upon 
your readers the every-day adventures 
of a week's hunting, but suffice it to say 
we had splendid sport, and returned home 
delighted with our trip. Indian River is 
the boss place for ducks." 



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Numerous testimonials could be pro- 
duced in support of the claims so lightly 
touched upon, showing that this coun- 
try has not been overdrawn ; and in say- 
ing to all that a few days' sojourn in 
Northern Michigan — the region of clear 
bracing air, pure crystal water, and the 
paradise of sportsmen — will cause firm 
belief in the beneficial effects of a vaca- 
tion spent there, it is confidently believed 



in freedom from frauds, tramps, and 
gamblers; unequalled in the low rates 
and charges for all manner of necessary 
expenses in both traveling and living. 
The tyrant, Fashion, has no abiding 
place in these northern precincts; visitors 
can live, can rusticate, can amuse them- 
selves, can rest and enjoy themselves in 
accordance with the dictates of their own 
good sense. Fashions, styles, and what 




BEAR RIVER, NEAR PETOSKEY. 



will receive the unanimous assent of all 
visitors. 

As a certain prominent gentleman 
aptly states when writing to the Rich- 
mond Neius of August 5th, 1879: " This 
country holds out inducements for plea- 
sure-looking, health-seeking — all classes 
of Summer tourists — unequalled by any 
other resort; unequalled in invigorating 
and health-giving qualities; unequalled 



the say are thrown to the dogs, and 
tourists act like intelligent and sensible 
men and women in this part of the coun- 
try. Nature supplies pure water, a pure 
and active atmosphere, cool and refresh- 
ing days and glorious sound-sleeping 
nights. It is a remarkable fact that 
every tourist who visits this northern re- 
gion, boasts of the good and sound sleep- 
ing enjoyed every night. 



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" The great lake of Michigan, with 
its many and diversified bays; the rivers, 
creeks, rivnlets, and springs, all supplied 
with pure water; the towering forests of 
both hardwood and evcrgeen; the hills 
and valleys — all taken into considera- 
tion, present views, sceneries, and sub- 
jects of admiration to the intelligent, the 
artistic, and the poetic mind. The great 
variety and generous supply of the fish 



Having suggested to the reader the 
charms of the Great Traverse Region, at- 
tention is invited to the means of reach- 
ing it The Grand Rapids & Indiana 
Railroad pierces the vei-y heart of it, and, 
being crossed by some twenty railroad 
lines from different directions, affords 
visitors from every part of the continent 
unusual facilities for reaching these plea- 
sure grounds, Richmond, Indiana, i<j 




TENT SCENK IN MIC 

and game families afford subject of 
amusement and delight to the sportsman, 
and of hope and thankfulness to the econ- 
omist and philanthropist." 

One feature in this connection will 
bear special mention. The hotels are 
good, and accommodations are furnish- 
ed throughout the entire region under 
mention, at prices ranging from $1.50 to 
$2.50 per day, which are much below 
figures charged at similar places. 



UIGAN NORTH WOODS. 

the southern terminus of the Grand 
Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and its 
junction point with the Pittsburg, Cin- 
cinnati & St. Louis (Pan Handle), and 
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Rail- 
roads, over which last mentioned line 
through coaches are run to and from 
Cincinnati. In the Union Depot, the tra- 
veler will find a good dining-room and 
lunch counter. At Winchester the Cleve- 
land. Columbus, Cincinnati & Indiana- 



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polis Railroad ( Bee Line) crosses. At 
R"idgeville, the crossing of the Chicago 
k Columbus Division, the line leaves the 
Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Rail- 
road. At Portland, the Lake Erie & 
Western Railroad is crossed, and at 
Decatur, the Toledo, Delphos & Bur- 
lington Railroad. Fort Wayne is the 
point of junction with the Pittsburg, 
Fort Wayne & Chicago; Wabash, St. 



of water six miles long, well stocked 
with pike, pickerel, black and rock bass, 
and perch. The lake is dotted with 
several fine; islands, which are used for 
picnic and camping out parties. Parties 
desirous of fishing will find boats very 
conveniently placed. This lake has re- 
ceived liberal deposits of California sal- 
mon. At Sturgis, Michigan, the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, 




ROME CITY LAKE AND ISLAND. 



Louis & Pacific; Fort Wayne, Muncie 
k Cincinnati, and Fort Wayne & Sag- 
inaw railroads. At La Otto, the Eel 
River Division of Waba„h Railroad is 
crossed, and at Avilla, the Chicago Di- 
vision of Baltimore & Ohio Railway. 
Kendallville is the crossing of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, 
Air Line. 

Rome City, a village one hundred and 
twenty seven miles north of Richmond, 
is pleasantly located on a large reservoir 



main line, is crossed. Wasepi — a pretty 
village — is the crossing point of Michi- 
gan Central Railroad, Air Line. At 
Yicksburg, a junction with the North 
Western Grand Trunk Railway is ef- 
ected. 

Kalamazoo, one hundred and eighty-five 
miles north of Richmond, and two hun- 
dred and fifty-five miles from Cincinnati, 
is the largest and handsomest village in 
Michigan, and is the crossing of Michigan 
Central Railroad, main line. At Mon- 



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teith, sixteen miles beyond Kalamazoo, 
connection is made for Grand Haven, 
Spring Lake, and Muskegon, via Alle- 
gan. 

The curative properties of the Grand 
Haven and Spring Lake mineral waters, 
together with the fine air and good ho- 
tels, have caused these points to assume a 
position among the noted watering- 
places of America scarce dreamed of by 
their founders. Annually large num- 



may go up the river and eat lunch on 
the banks in one of the many charming 
places there to be found, pausing at will 
to troll for black bass which are there in 
large numbers. In fact, the deserving 
features of the resorts in mention can- 
not be enumerated, but are cheerfully 
recommended to the tender mercies of 
the most exacting tourist. Grand 
Haven and Spring Lake can also be 
reached by way of Grand Rapids and 




MAIN STREET, CHARLEVOIX, MICHIGAN. 



bers flock to the life-giving waters, while 
many come to escape the heated atmos- 
phere of more Southern climes. 

While at either of these points, the 
guest may enjoy the manifold facilities 
for boating and fishing found there, and 
few finer opportunities present them- 
selves for the enjoyment desirable from 
such pastimes. The visitor may proceed 
down the river to its mouth, and, with 
lady friends, picnic on the beach of that 
great unsalted sea, Lake Michigan, or 



the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee 
Railroad, being thirty-three miles distant 
from Grand Rapids. 

Grand Rapids, three hundred miles 
from Cincinnati, is a beautiful and flour- 
ishing city — the second in the State; has 
forty thousand inhabitants, many large 
manufactories, and is the proto-type of 
Chicago in business enterprise and rapid- 
ity of growth. The tourist will not re- 
gret a day spent in this city, for it has 
many attraxitions for the stranger that 



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181 



will bear a closer acquaintance. Among 
lyimerous points which claim attention 
may be mentioned Reed's Lake. This 
lovely spot lies three miles from the city, 
and one can either ride out by street car 
or drive along the excellent roads. Once 
on the spot, boats can be procured for 
rowing or sailing on the lake, and fishing 



are not here present from one of the sur- 
rounding towns. There are many fine 
drives in and around Grand Rapids. 
The " river road " is especially to be re- 
membered, winding, as it does, for a long 
distance beneath huge trees that serve 
to intensify the beauty of the way on the 
bank of Grand River. 




NEAR PET08KBY, MICHIQA.V. 



tackle and minnows for ensnaring the 
finny denizens of the deep. There are 
also steam yachts for the use of picnic 
parties, &c., and plenty of secluded spots 
for the pleasure and enjoyment of those 
who seek shady nooks and sequestered 
dells. Seldom a day passes during the 
Summer that one or more picnic parties 



The hotels rank among the finest in 
the country and have few superiors, and 
the charges much below the usual range 
of prices for even inferior accommoda- 
tions. 

Cadillac, ninety - eight miles from 
Grand Rapids, is built on the east shore 
of Little Clam Lake- — which is joined by 



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a navigable canal with Big Clara Lake, 
three miles distant — and is a very plea- 
sant place to dwell for a short season. 
The hotels are good, and the lakes af- 
ford fine fishing, while the lover of beau- 
ty in nature will find much to admire; 
the lakes are invested with a ^ peculiar 
loveliness, a weird strangeness by the 
monster pine trees which surround and 
fringe the waters. 



pared to camp. Teams can be hired to 
transport camping equipage to the river 
banks. The river is navigable, and 
boats must be used, for it is a wide, 
strong stream, with a current of about 
four miles an hour. Just above the rail- 
road bridge, a little stream runs into 
the river; and about five miles up the 
river there are two fine brooks, from 
the mouths of all of which tliousands of 




INDIAN RIVER. 



After a rnn of twenty-two miles 
through the solid pine forest, which gives 
the thought of " walls of trees," Walton 
Junction is reached, the point where the 
Traverse City Division branches oflF to- 
ward Grand Traverse Bay. Three 
miles south of Walton the railroad cross- 
es the Manistee River, one of the great 
grayling streams of Michigan. Parties 
intending a long stay, must come pre- 



grayling are taken every season. The 
flats or sinks — so called from the spread 
of water over a wide expanse — are above 
the logging camps, and the water being 
clear, the fishing is good, par excellence. 
Twelve miles from Walton, on the Tra- 
verse City Branch, Mayfield is reached, 
in the immediate vicinity of which an- 
glers will find fine trout, bass, and perch 
fibbing. The Boardman, one of the best 



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183 



trout streams in the country, runs with- 
in a mile of the village, and teams, &c. , 
are obtained for a reasonable remunera- 
tion. At Traverse City, twenty-six 
miles from Walton, the visitor, upon 
alighting from the cars, finds himself 
upon a narrow peninsula of sand, formed 
between the Boardman River and the 
Grand Traverse Bay. On facing the 
bay, he looks with wonder at the vast 



of the bay till it is merged in the lake, 
thirty miles distant, there is presented 
to the eye an ever-changing panoi'ama of 
surpassing loveliness. The highlands 
skirting the bay, and the islands resting 
upon its bosom, are clothed with 
the greenest of forests, or evince 
the care of the husbandman and the vine- 
dresser in well-tilled fields and fiourish- 
iiiQ,- vineyards. Traverse City is located 




speaker's stand, jiethod;st camp grounds, bay vikw 
stretch of water before him. Away to 



the north it reaches as far as the eye can 
discern. The shores of the bay, heavily 
fringed with evergreen, are reflected in 
the clear, bright water, with a witchery 
charming to behold. The water of the 
bay, and in all the streams in this region, 
is remarkably pure and clear. In the 
bay, any white object can be distinctly 
seen at a depth of sixty feet or more. 
From the semi-circle forming the head 



at the head of the west arm of Grand 
Traverse Bay, one of the oldest towns 
in the whole Grand Traverse region. 
Unusual attractions are presented here 
for the sportsman and tourist; the 
broad expanse of bay, than which 
no more beautiful sheet of water ex- 
ists in the world, with its undulating 
shores and crystal clear water; the clean 
gravelled streets, and miles of well-kept 
sidewalks of the village; its comfortable, 



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home-like dwellings, and tidily-kept 
yards are pleasing to residents and stran- 
gers alike. In keeping with the general 
character of the town are its accommo- 
dations for travelers and pleasure seek- 
ers. Chief among its hotels are the 
Park Place, Bay House, and Front 
Street House. Traverse City is one of 
the best sporting centres in the far-famed 
Grand Traverse Region. The bay af- 



grayling stream, is easily accessible, 
while the whole surrounding country is 
marked with brooks and smaller streams, 
every one of which appears to be the na- 
tive home of the speckled trout. Among 
the principal lakes in the immediate vi- 
cinity are, Cedar Lake, three miles; 
Bass Lake, eight miles; Betzie Lake, 
twelve miles; Long Lake, eight miles; 
Carp Lake, seven miles; Boardmau Lake 







SSIITHS LANDING, INDIAN RIVEK. 



fords the rare sport of trolling, and the 
still rarer sport of deep water fishiug for 
Mackinac trout. 

The inland lakes in the vicinity are 
numerous, and are well stocked with 
black and rock bass, pickerel, muska- 
longe, &c.; the Board man River, empty- 
ing into the bay. at this point, is one of 
the finest trout streams in Northern 
Michigan; the Manistee, the famous 



half mile, while a dozen of smaller lakes 
or ponds within a radius of twelve miles 
furnish easy and excellent fishing. At 
Traverse City, tents, boats, teams, 
guides, fishing tackle, bait, and all the 
etceteras of camp life or for a day's fish- 
ing, can be procured at reasonable 
rates. 

Two daily through trains, with ele- 
gant coaches by day and sleepers by 



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night, connect at this point with the 
palace steamer City of Traverse once a 
week for Mackinac Island, the boat re- 
mains one full day and returns to Tra- 
verse City, going and coming at night, 
so that no time is lost; also with the 
pretty little bay steamer Clara Belle, 
Avhich makes daily trips the entire circuit 
of the bay; and with a new and elegant 
steamer, the City of Grand Rapids, 
which ruus daily between Traverse City, 
Petoskey, and Little Traverse, and 



in Northern Michigan, then, no one is 
more desirable, more comfortable, easier 
of access, pleasanter of location, afford- 
ing b-^tter facilities and opportunities 
for enjoyment to tho.se seeking quiet rest, 
or the sportsman with his rod and gun, 
than Traverse City. 

Returning by rail to Walton Junction, 
the visitor, by traveling four miles north 
on the main line, will reach Fife Lake, 
a village of three hundred people, situ- 
ated on the west shore of Fife Lake. 




LAKE VIEW HOUSE, MULLETT LAKE. 



owned — as are the other boats named- — 
by Hannah, Lay & Co. No more de- 
lightful trip can be imagined than either 
of the ones mentioned. The weekly ex- 
cursions to Mackinac on one of the finest 
boats upon the lakes, with comfortable 
sleeping accommodations and well-set 
tables, will prove especially attractive to 
tourists who are glad to run away for a 
few days from the heat and dust of the 
city to the clear cool air of Lake 
Michigan. 

Among the pleasant stopping places 



Bass, pike, and pickerel, found in abun- 
dance in the lake, grayling in the Man- 
istee River, five miles southeast, and 
brook trout in the Boardman River, six 
miles north, form the attractions of this 
locality. Grayling fishing from the head- 
waters of the Manistee to the railroad 
bridge at Walton Junction is very fine, 
and must be done from boats. A good 
road leads from Fife Lake Station to 
these waters, and no difficulty should be 
experienced in taking boats there by 
team, which can be procured at all times. 



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Boat-fishing in the Boardman at this 
point is difficult, owing- to brush and un- 
dergrowth along the banks, but wading 
is good. 

CoTitinuing nortliward, the traveler 
next finds himself at Kalkaska, a village 
of six hundred souls, built on the north 
bank of the North Boardman River. 
At this point the Boardman flows with 
a speed of four miles per hour, is not 
navigable, but has good bottom for 



stream — current eight miles per hour — 
and onospf the finest trout waters extant. 
Its current forms many deep pools, 
wherein the speckled beauties play hide- 
and seek, and although difficult to ap- 
proach, they may, by patience, be 
caught This stream is cheerfully re- 
commended to the lovers of the trout. 

After leaving Kalkaska, the railroad 
passes through almost interminable for- 
ests of beech and maple, and within a 




VIEW ON THE JORDAN RIVER. 



wading. A good wagon road leads to 
the fishi' g grounds, which are about 
three miles from the station, and one 
I'.undred trout to the rod is no extraor- 
dinary day's fishing. He who once visits 
the north fork of the Bnnrdman from 
Kalkaskii will be sure to i-c urn another 
yenr. 

'1 hree miles northwest of Kalkaska is 
Rapid River Post Office •• m:ill hamlet 
on tiie bunks of Rapid Pviver, a swift 



few miles of the headquarters of the 
Intermediate, Grass, Jordan, Deer, and 
Boyne rivers, all most excellent trout 
streams. Owing to the unbroken char- 
acter of the forest in this vicinity, no 
stranger should venture in without a 
guide who is thoroughly acquainted with 
the grounds. Parties must come pre- 
pared to camp. In the hunting season 
large numbers of deer are found in these 
woods. The ougler will not regret the 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 



18T 



inconveuience of carry ng a gun with 
Iiim, for there are many bquirrels in the 
forest lining the ban lis of the Jordan 
and adjoining streams. Aside from tiie 
good eating afforded by this festive ro- 
dent, his flesh forms most excellent l>ait 
in the absence of woi'ms. 

Thirteen miles north of Kalkaska is 
the hamlet of Mane lona, where the ex- 
press trains stop for meals, prepared at 



place for fly-casting. The water Is 
about ten feet deep on the average, and 
clear as crystal, and the numerous logs 
and stumps afford good hiding-places. 
The fishing in the stream is excellent. 
About two and a half miles from this 
station the extreme limit of navigation 
is reached, and from this to the mouth 
there is a channel about thirty feet wide, 
but all, save this cliauuel— which has 




TRAVERSE CITY. 



the Mancelona House. Good accom- 
modations at this point at reasonable 
rates, and excellent arrangements for 
overland trips to Torch Lake, Spen«er 
Creek, and other fishing waters. 

Boyne Falls Station, thirty-eight miles 
from Kalkaska, is located on the banks 
of the Boyne River, a stream well stock- 
wl with brook trout. Small boats should 
be used in fishing this stream, which is 
navigable for a short distance from its 
mouth. The mill pond at this point is 
["airly alive with trout, and is a splendid 



I been cleared of logs and dead-falls by 
lumbermen — is a mass of roots and 
sunken logs, among which lurk the 
gamey trout. The best way to fish the 
Boyne is to go up from the mouth with 
a boat, and after still-fishing above the 
headwaters for the big ones supposed to 
be lurking among the logs, leisurely fish 
down stream. Almost all the troat 
killed in the Boyne are caught with a 
bait, and are highly colored fish, yet the 
opportunities for fly-fishing are unsur- 
At the mouth of the Boyne, 



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five miles from the falls, is Pine Lake, 
in which the bass fishing is very fine. 
Minnows can be easily captured, and the 
fish hooked with light tackle in the cool 
waters of Pine Lake afford great enjoy- 
ment, and not a little skill must be used 
in safely landing a six-pounder. At this 
point the weary angler will find a com- 
fortable hotel, in which to rest prepara- 



On the arrival of the morning train 
at Boyne Falls, a stage line will run to 
Boyne River, at the head of Pine Lake, 
where two new fast steamers— built ex- 
pressly for this route, and officered by 
thoroughly competent men — will be in 
readiness to convey passengers to the 
Jordan River, at the head of the south 
arm, and to Charlevoix, arriving there 




SUMMER COTTAGE NEAR PETOSKEY. 



tory to the toil and pleasure of another 
day's sport. A little steamer plies be- 
tween the mouth and Charlevoix, touch- 
ing at various points, among them Hor- 
tou's Bay, a most lovely place. No 
prettier location can be imagined or 
desired for a Summer cottage than this 
Horton's Bay. The hills slope gently 
to the water's edge, into whose depths 
Horton's Creek empties after winding 
its course through the valley thickly 
studded with cedar and birch, and offer- 
ing splendid trout fishing. The bay 
itself affords very fine bass fishing; deer 
and grouse shooting is good in season. 



about 10 A. M. Returning, will leave 
Charlevoix at 3 p. m., and arrive at 
Boyne Falls in time for the evening train 
south. To the lover of Nature, the 
Boyne is ever charming; to the lover 
of the gentle art, it commends itself by 
its numbers of speckled trout that can 
be taken from its cold waters. The 
stream is only about thirty feet in width ; 
its mouth is uninviting — seemingly only 
a barren sand waste. It requires n 
good canoe or fishing-boat, a strong 
arm, a deft hand to paddle, and light 
tackle to lure trout from the spring- 
holes and behind the logs; but they are 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 189 



there, and can be coaxed out by careful 
fishing. The best way to take these shy 
beauties is to use a sinker and bait, ei- 
ther worms or ventral fin of a trout. 
These will lure theni every time, pro- 
vided the fisher keeps out of sight. Like 
all streams, the best fishing is early in 
June. Then, any one pulling up stream 
until the brush stops them and slowly 
drifting down, fishing in the holes and 
drifts that the swift current has washed 
out, soon feels a whopper. Look out 



snags and crossed by fallen trees, which 
makes successful navigation a problem to 
be solved only by tact and much prac- 
tice. In angling, the streams are inva- 
riably fished from boats, as the banks 
are a tangle, and the passage through 
the woods to them is almost impractica- 
ble; it is possible to wade, but by no 
means comfortable to do so. Streams 
are always fished doiun, for reasons that 
will become obvious enough when the 
angler reaches the ground. With a man 




TORCH RIVEK. 



for your tackle! The stream is full of 
sunken logs, the brush grows into the 
stream. The fish are very game, and 
afford good sport to any one who cares 
about something more than yanking 
them out. Any one who can fish at all, 
can depend upon getting from fifty trout 
upward, per day. 

The author of " The American Club 
Lists" says of the Boyne and Jordan 
rivers: " The upper portions of the Boyne 
and Jordan rivers, and, indeed, of all the 
Michigan forest streams, are filled with 



competent to handle the boat, this meth- 
od of fishing is greatly to be preferred. 
It can be made even luxurious. One 
can scarcely conceive a more favorable 
stream than the Jordan for this kind of 
work. For the first two miles after en- 
tering its mouth, the channel flows 
through a rush and grass meadow, and 
the current is comparatively sluggish- 
As the ridge or height of land is ap 
proached, it becomes very rapid and 
much broken. For ten miles it is amply 
wide for good fly-casting, and sufiicientl-c 



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devoid of over-arching and protruding 
branches and brush. Its waters are four 
feet deep, clear as crystal, ice-cold, and 
delicious. By making headquarters at 
Webster's, a neat log-house about five 
miles from its mouth, one can fish the 
upper and lower waters to the best ad- 
vantage. Nothing can be more delight- 
ful than a week's sojourn at this little 
clearing in the woods, a half mile back 
from the river. From the rustic bridge 
that crosses the stream just at this point, 
the path winds up a moderate hill 
through a hardwood and pine forest, in 
which hirge sugar maples are frequent, 
and the visitor no sooner emerges and 
catches a glimpse of the premises, than 
he feels that neatness, comfort, and good 
cheer dwell within. The surmise is 
speedily strengthened by abundant tes- 
timony. The clearing contains but a 
few acres, and the adjacent woods harbor 
numerous deer and bears. 

" In new countries like this, earth- 
worms have scarcely had time to accli- 
matize or domiciliate. The angler, there- 
fore, must not depend on ' wums ' for 
bait. > either is it practicable for him 
to pursue the festive grasshopper with 
baited breath. These insects do not 
forage much in these parts — at least, 
they have not for ages. Nevertheless, 
the woods furnish abundant materials 
for lures, and the sportsman needs only 
take his gun and knock over a chance 
rabbit, squirrel, or pigeon, to obtain all 
that he desires. In utilizing baits of 
meat, much ingenuity is required, and 
I've no doubt that the marvelous suc- 
cess of certain successful fishermen is as 
much due to their contrivances in the 
preparation of baits and flies as to the 
skillful nianii)ulati(in in presenting them 
to the fish. If trout are not rising for 
their food, trailing artificial flies upon 



the surface are not the tactics to employ. 
If they stick to the bottom, we must send 
our lur. s to the bottom lor them.'' 

Of the Jordan much has been said. 
It is a fine stream, of large dimensions, 
discharging immense quantities of ice- 
cold water. lis course is long, and 
parties intending to fish should go up to 
Webster's. The river lies iu long reaches 
beyond, wherein the trout are found in 
abundance, the greatest inconvenience 
being the brush and sunken logs. A 
patient fisherman can fill his creel with 
fair-sized trout, with an occasional gray- 
ling or two. Below Webster's, good 
trout fishing can be found in the mouth 
of some creeks flowing into the main 
stream. Trout fourteen and a half inches 
long have been taken in the Jordan 
btlow the bridge — game as the most en- 
thusiastic fisherman could desire. There 
is no need to basket fingerlings — a care- 
ful, pa lent fisherman can easily take 
more than himself and friends can eat. 

The Jordan River is regarded by many 
as being by far the best trout stream in 
North America. A gentleman who has 
visited this locality for years in succes- 
sion, and who has fished in Maine, New 
York, the Rocky Mountains, and, in 
fact, almost every notable trout stream 
in the country, says the Jordan River, 
without exception, affords the finest trout 
fishing it has ever been his good fortune 
to experience. At the mouth of the 
Jordan there is a good house where the 
right kind of people will be cheerfully 
accommodated, for a proper considera- 
tion. Also, at J. B. Webster's, five 
miles from the mouth of the Jordan, 
and half a mile back from the stream, 
good quarters may be secured. 

Sixteen miles north of Boyne Falls is 
the village of Petoskey, the northern 
terminus of the main line of the 



HUhTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 191 



Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, four j 
hundred and niuety-fdur miles from Ciu- | 
cinnati, Obio, situated on the south side | 
of Little Traverse Bay, at the foot of 
high bluflfs, having a water front of one 
and a quarter miles, and extending in- 
land about the same distance. 

Little Traverse Bay is about nine 
miles long; from a width of six miles at 
the mouth, the undulating shores grad- 




TENTING IN THE WOODS. 

ually approach each other until only two 
miles apart, turning upon a com lou cen- 
tre, and forming the head of the bay 
into a half circle. 1 he bay is liere en- 
c'o ed by hightable lands or iiiglier, 
hills that approach the water in a suc- 
cessidn of natural terraces or iihrii) it 1)1 iitfs, 
which apparently having been ciowdeci 
back from the water's edge bv the for- 
mal ive process, iirranged theni-clv s into 

■liva- 

viir- 

ll.is 

I fiflv 



one vast am|)liitlieatre, having jm 
tion of two liMiidred feet from !!> 
face of th(' li;iy. In theceii'' ■> 
stands Petoskcy, at an elevat.< n r. 
feet above tiir water. From tin-^ 



omt 



the ground rises gradually in all direc- 
tions to the natural limits of the town, 
thus giving to every one alike the bene- 
fits of the m'.ld and invigorating breezes, 
and opening to all the beautiful views of 
lake, bay, and opposite shore. 

From the south, Bear Creek comes 
tumbling merribly along, as though glad 
to be released, and bounds laughingly 
into the bay near the old Indian council- 
grounds. The current of this 
stream is very rapid, and the 
excellent water - power has 
been utilized by several firms 
for the manufacture of various 
articles. 

Charles Hallock, Esq., au- 
thor of '* Camp Life in Flori- 
da," speaks of Petoskey in the 
followirg pleasing mannner: 

" If we are out in a boat 
on the bay and look in toward 
the land, we perceive that Pe- 
toskey occupies a series of 
picturesque undulations that 
spread out on either hand, and 
rise to the rear in the form of 
an amphitheatre. A lofty 
limestone cliff flanks the town 
on the west. Its top is crown- 
ed with trees, among which are discov- 
ered the tents of many vacation tourists 
who are camping out. Behind them 
rises an overtopping eminence, dotted 
with pretentious villas of wealthy resi- 
dents. From the verge of this cliff the 
outlook is superb. Across, five miles 
distant, is the ridge of hills that line the 
o|)|)osite side of the Little Traverse 
Bav. These sweep round in a symme- 
trical curve to the head of the bay two 
miles t'l the right, and then follow the 
hither -liore until they rise fMid termi- 
nate in the cliff on which we stand. 
" All along in that direction, as far 



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as sight can reach, we can trace the 
"white line of the pebbly shore limned 
against the green of the hills; and then 
from the base of our cliff in a sweep of 
two miles or more to the left, in the form 
of a crescent, ending in a wooded point. 
Tree-covered hills slope gently back and 
upward from the beach, and pretty cot- 
tages peep out from among their branches. 
The principal part of the town lies in the 
bowl of the amphitheatre, from which a 
practicable road loads throutrh a ravine 




SUJlMEEi COTTAGE IN NORTIIEKN MICHIGAN 

to the long pier which projects from the 
hollow of the crescent into the bay, and 
gives additional character to the scenery. 
" Petoskey offers considerable attrac- 
tions to Summer visitors who may desire 
to make it headquarters for side excur- 
sions. For local out-of-door amusements 
there are boating, sailing, bathing, and 
fishing in the bay; walks and investiga- 
tions along the beach; picnics in the 
groves; drives to Bear Lake, Round 
Lake, and Crooked Lake — all of which 
contain bass and pickerel; and hourly 



excursions by steamer across the bay to 
Little Traverse village, an India'> reser- 
vation, where the red man luxuriates 
after his own fashion," 

This region is known to be a sanita- 
rium for hay fever, asthma and catarrhal 
affections. The climate is remarkably 
invigorating, just such as is needed by 
thousands of enfeebled constitutions. The 
air is freed from all malaria, and the 
water is wonderfully clear, and as pure 
as can be found in the country. The 
glistening white sand of the 
beach, skirted by dense for- 
ests of balsam, cedars, and 
arbor-vitae, whot:e dee|) shade 
contrasts charmingly with 
the bright sunlit waters, is 
the favorite resort of many 
who seek the numerous shells 
and the coral - like stones 
which are easily worked up 
into jewelry and numerous 
articles of great beauty. The 
hotels are the C u s h m a ii 
House, the Occidental, and 
the Clifton House, all first- 
class; and besides, there are 
many excellent boarding - 
houses. These hotels will 
be kept up in first-class 
style, and every attention 
given to the comfort of patrons. Steam- 
ers ply between Petoskey, PresI)) terian 
Resort, Harbor Point, and Little Trav- 
erse, making the round trip each hour. 
The steamer Gazelle runs between Pe- 
toskey and Mackinac, by the outside 
route, daily, and leaves Petoskey on the 
arrival of the early morning train; re- 
turning, arrives at Petoskey in time to 
connect with the south-bound train in 
the evening. Steamers run daily be- 
tween Petoskey and Traverse City. A 
railroad has been built to Crooked Lake 



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193 



by the way of Bay View, and trips are 
made to that point several times each 
day, thereby affording opportunities to 
parties desiring- to go picuicing or fishing 
to this delightful spot; and also making 
connection with steamers for the trip 
through the inland lakes. The distances 
via the very popular inland routes are as 
follows, viz.: Petoskey to Bay View, one 
mile; Bay Viev7 to Crooked Lake, five 




LAKE MICmGAN FROM CHARLEVOIX. 



five 



miles ; Crooked Lake (length), 
miles; Crooked Eiver (length), seven 
miles; Burt Lake (length), eight miles; 
Indian River (length), five miles; Mul- 
let Lake (length), twelve miles; Che- 
boygan River (length), seven miles; and 
esteeming it highly probable that many 
desire information upon this subject, it 
is proposed to go through the chain and 
discover the various hostelries, points of 
interest, &c. 

At the head of Crooked Lake (called 
Conway Springs, and terminus of the 



Bay View & Crooked Lake Railroad), 
comfortable quarters will be found at 
Edgar & Trask's and Hayden & Black- 
mer's new hotels, for about fifty and 
twenty- five persons each, respectively; 
and two floating palaces have been fitted 
up by John Andrews, for fishing parties, 
with provision for fifty guests. This last- 
named gentleman also owns a neat little 
tug, which can be secured at fair rates, 
and will carry twen- 
ty-five persons. 
Boats,rowers,tackle 
and bait can be ob- 
tained at several oth- 
er places near by. 

Daily trips are 
made between Con- 
way Springs and 
Cheboygan by tidy 
and substantial 
steamers, passing 
through the route 
given above ; and 
the trip is a most 
delightful one, ren- 
dering entrancing 
views of land and 
waterscapes. 

Crooked Lake is 
famed for its excel- 
lent bass fishing, and 
numerous charming spots will be seen 
suitable for, and seemingly desiring use 
as, camping-places. 

Passing into Crooked River, the tour- 
ist reaches the best fishing-grounds, and, 
in the proper season, good hunting can 
be enjoyed — deer, bears, ducks, par- 
tridges, and other game being quite 
abundant. Near the head of this river 
the comfortable home of Henry Bunz 
offers a hospitable welcome to some ten 
persons, at nominal rates, and boats, 
&c., can be had. 



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Tlu(iiii!:h Crooked River, Burt Lake 
is roaclicil, and in the eool depths of this 
beautiful sheet of water are caught mul- 
titudi's of bhick and speckled bass, pike, 
muscah)i)ge, &c. There are at least a 
dozeu pJMces on the banks of this lake 
admirably adapted to camping purposes, 
pariieulnly Point Comfort and Indian 
Point. Uere it was tii 
the "Solid Comforts''— 
a club of Merc r, Penn- '-^^ , 

sylvania, gfntlemen — ^^ 

spent their vacation dur- 
ing tlie Summer of 1818; 
and in the Mercer De- / 
spatvh of July 18th they 
thu- discourse : " The 
' Solid Comforts ' have 
passed a busy week since 
leaving Mercer, and the 
most fastidious memlier 
has been delighted thus 
far, Wc arrived at Pe- 
toskey o Tuesday even- 
ing. Our first stop was 
on Crooked Lake, where 
we remained until yes- 
terday, spending the time 
in Crooked and Pickerel 
Lakes, and in rowing 
and sports of the camp. 
The fishing is all tiiat t'le 
most sanguine expected, 
and has moreover been a 
a constant source of 
amusemeLt. Stranahan 
and Clawson are the scientific fisher- 
men, and have caught the largest and 
most fish; but two amateurs that are 
too lazy to hold a line or row half the 
time, can catch more fish in an afternoon 
than would supply the camp all day. 
Thus far, we have been compelled to 
throw away the gre«ter part of our 
catch, not being able to use or give 



them away. This locality, as well as 
the entire northern part of Michigan, 
abounds in small lakes made up almost 
wholly of spring water. Saturday we 
went on to Burt Lake, and are now 
camped at Indian Point, a site which 
we much admire. Crooked River is a 
most beautiful stream, quite narrow, but 




CROOKED RIVER. 

navigable, and as clear as spring water, 
and full of fish, many of which wt- cap- 
tured from the bow of the boat as we 
leisurely floated down." 

On the banks of Burt Lake, four 
miles from the head of Indian River, N. 
L. Gates has erefted a large, roomy 
building, and promises good eheci' and 
attention to the wants of twenty-five 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 



195 



persous wisliing to fisli or hunt iu this 
ueighborhood. 

Passing through Burt Lake, the head 
of Indian Iliver is reached, and you ar- 
rive at the popular caravansary of David' 
Smith, familiarly known as the " half- 
way house." ;Not only are good accom- 
modations furnished here to the hungry 
or weary guests, but superb fishing is 
obtainable within easy distance. The 
Indian River flows past the door — a 

lllllll 




SCENE ON WALLOON LAKE. NEAR PETOSKEY. 

very silver thread upon Nature's curpet 
— r pp'iug and laughing in gleeful mel- 
ody as it softly lapses over its mossy 
bed. The Sturgeon Iliver is close at 
hand; Douglas Lake but two, and Pigeon 
River about five, miles away. Steam- 
boats will be rented to fishing jouties 
by Mr. Smith, and boats and tackle are 
furni.-hed gratuitously to the patrons of 
the house. 

Upon leaving Indian River, the tour- 



ist enters Mullet Lake — larger and ful y 
as charming as Burt Lake, About two 
miles from the head Pigeon River and 
Mullet Lake Summer Resort House is 
approached, a newly-erected and excep- 
tionally handsome structure, situated at 
the southern end of the lake. The loca- 
tion of the house is very fine, command- 
ing a full view of the beautiful lake 
spreading away to the northeast, hem- 
med in by clustering hills and formed in- 
to cosy bays and confid- 
ing inlets. The hou<e has 
accommodations for two 
hundred guests, is first 
class in every respect, 
and has a number of row 
and sail boats on the lake 
for the use of its patrons. 
Two new elegant eighty- 
feet steamboats, fitted up 
in handsome style, ply on 
the Inland Route during 
the season. The rivers 
within an hour's rowing 
contain abundant trout 
and bass, and near at 
hand is the Pigeon Riv- 
er, famed for its gray- 
ling. Half a mile further 
on a new hotel at Kceh- 
ler's, where twenty-five 
guests can be accommo- 
dated. 
Frnm Mullet Lake you pass into the 
Cheboygan River, and soon reach Che- 
boygan, situated on the Lake Huron 
side of the Michigan Peninsula, com- 
manding the eastern entrance of the 
Straits of Mackinac. Fi>hing in this vi- 
cinity is very fine. Black Creek, one 
mile east of Cheboygan; the creeks and 
streams entering Duncan Bay, three miles 
east; the 0(|U( oc, fonrteen miles east; 
and in the stnaras between Cheboygan 



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THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURISTS GUIDE. 



and Old Mackinac, speckled trout can 
can be taken in large numbers; and 
black bass are found in all the waters 
near by; in fact, some of the finest black 
bass fishing in the country can be had 
a few miles from Petoskey, on the inland 
steamer route. Here there are no flies 
nor mosquitoes to bother you, no hot, 
stifling nights, no clammy dews nor dank 
miasma creeping into 
the system; but abso- 
lute rest, and at night 
the sweetest slumber 
can be enjoyed. 

Leaving Cheboygan 
by steamer, to the right 
lies Bois Blanc, a fer- 
tile island — as yet a 
forest; next Round Is- 
land, and then stand- 
ing out in bold relief 
the beautiful and im- 
portant Island of Mac- 
kinac, the " Gem of 
the Straits," the white 
walls of the old fort- 
ress appearing three 
hundred feet above the 
level of Lake Huron, 
and overlooking the 
whole channel and sur- 
roundings. The "Won- 
derful Isle " is a mass 
of calcareous rock, and 
rises from the bed of 
Lake Huron to an ele- 
vation of over three hundred feet above 
the water level. The waters around are 
purity itself, and small articles can be 
clearly discerned even at greatest depth. 
The cliff's shoot up from the island per- 
pendicularly, and some of them tower 
aloft in pinnacles resembling ruinous 
Gothic steeples. 

Many caverns have been found which 



contained various relics of the departed 
tribes. The gleaming white walls of the 
fort frown down upon the old-fashion 
French town, which nestles around the 
harbor in very primitive style, and af- 
ford a good view of the entire island. 
Curious little caves and glens are dis- 
covered here and there; traces of the 
old-time-dense growth of diff'erent khids 




SCENE ON THE BOY 



of hardwood are noticeable; winding 
pat) s and romantic situations abound. 
As a health resort, Mackinac is unsur- 
passed. Its cool a'r and pure water are 
just what are needed to bring back the 
glow of health to the faded cheek, and 
send the warm currents of life dancing 
through the system with youthful vigor. 
Its natural points of interest have been 



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197 



designated as follows: British Landing, 
Friendship's Altar, Scott's Cave, Sugar 
Loaf, Arch Rock-, Fort Holmes, Maid- 
en's Rock, Rosalind's Bower, Fairy 
Arch of the Giant's Causeway, Lean- 
ing Rock, Point Lookout, Robinson's 
Folly, Devil's Kitch n, Lover's Leap, 
Skull Cave, Chimney Rock, and Queen 




LOVER'S LEAP, ISLAND OF MACKINAC. 



Esther's Retreat. As may be inferred 
from the names, these objects are precip- 
itous cliffs, caves, arched rocks, or coni- 
cal peaks. The most impressive are: 
Point Lookout, a sheer precipice on the 
southeast side of the island, from which 
a far-reaching view can be obtained; it 
is an angle of the cliffs, and its summit 
s about two hundred feet above the lev- 



el of the lake. The Arch Rock is an 
abutment and arch thrown out from the 
main body, or rather cut off from the 
main cliff, at nearly a right angle with 
it. Its summit is one hundred and fifty 
feet above the lake, the spring of the 
arch is one hundred and ten feet, and 
the span about ninety feet. The arch 
is three feet wide, and 
visitors often cross, 
though the feat is 
trying to the nerves. 
The Sugar Loaf is 
an isolated limestone 
rock, of conical shape, 
some eighty feet high, 
standing near the cen- 
tre of the island, and 
to climb . to the apex 
is considered a feat 
of some considerable 
difficulty. There is a 
cave in its side about 
one-third of its height 
from the base, large 
enough to accommo- 
date half a dozen per- 
sons. A sail into the 
Straits of Mackinac 
on a calm day is one 
of the most romantic, 
not only by reason of 
its surroundings, but 
of its historical asso- 
ciations to which ref- 
ence has been made. 
From the offing, the town is seen stretch- 
ed along a semi-circular shore under the 
bluff, very much as Little Traverse vil- 
lage lies. Three parallel streets occupy 
the level longitudinally, while the ram- 
parts of Fort Mackinac crown the clip's 
behind. The fortifications are white- 
washed a'ld being embedded with foliage 
are most picturesque. Several tasty 



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THE SPORTSMAN S AND TOURIST'S GUIDE. 



Summpr residences, with gardens and 
fountains, adorn the street tliat follows 
the line of the beach, and lend a home- 
like as])ect. Numerous two-masted Mac- 
kinac boats and other craft at anrhor off 
shore, or alongside tlie 
little piers that reach 
out from land, give 
animation to the |)ret- 
t}^ scene. 

The situation of the 
Island of Mackinac i> 
romantic, and it is not 
strange that it should 
possess, even for poor 
" IjO," an attraction 
which awakens in liini 
both the poetic and 
religious sentiment. 
From it can be seen 
Point St. Ignace, Old 
Mackinac, Round Is- 
land, Bois Blanc, Che- 
boygan, the shores of 
both the northern and 
southern peninsulas of 
the State, and here the 
waters of Huron and 
Michigan meet. 'Ihe 
air during the Sum- 
mer months is balmy 
and soft and invigor- 
ating, and the climate 
all that the imagina- 
tion can depict of love- 
liness. There is an ab- 
sence of those cold, 
rough winds in Sum- 
mer which many ima- 
gine to be the accom- 
paniments of that cli- 
mate, and which brings out overcoats 
and heavy flannels. The air, while never 
warm, is tempered by the winds from the 
great lakes, and strikes the cheeks grate- 



fully. The accommodiitinns provided for 
the entertainment of tourists at the is- 
land are ample and of t'le best. Sn^am- 
ers of the Chicago & LiikcSiipci-inr lines 
touch at Mackinac, wlio'c ihrv can be 




taken for Sault Ste. Marie and Lake 
Superior ports. 

Leaving the island through the detour 
to the foot of St. Mary's Falls, is about 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 



one hundred miles, and is a delightful 
trip to make. Through tortuous passages 
of the narrows, and around the chariniii<r 
islands, the tnnri^t is lod to inanv pic- 




turesque scenes. At the Sault are the 
celebrated falls, where the United States 
government has been spending so much 
money to benefit the lake C';mintrce. 
The canal has the largest locks of any 



works of the kind in the whole world. 
Returning to Petoskey, steamer via 
the bay route can be taken for Charle- 
voix. Another good route is via Boyne 
Fails, stage, and steamer 
nil Pine Lake, as men- 
tioned elsewhere. Char- 
levoix is charmingly loca- 
ted on a peninsula formed 
between Pine Lake and a 
small body of water call- 
ed Ruuud Lake, at the 
mouth of the former. The 
scenery is romantic. Fa- 
cilities for fishing are fine, 
ctnd the fishing is most 
excellent. Mill Creek, a 
mile from the villlage, is 
a good trout stream, while 
Pine Lake is well supplied 
with any quantity of ex- 
cellent fish, as already 
stated. The Deer, Jor- 
dan, and Boyne rivers 
and Intermediate Lake 
m.iy be reached from this 
point by highway or by a 
boat that plies between 
Charlevoix and the head 
of Pine Lake. At this 
point is the Charlevoix 
Summer Resort (some- 
times called the Baptist 
Summer Resort), organi- 
zed in 1878, and located 
half a mile from the post- 
office and stores of the 
village and three-quarters 
of a mile from Lake Mich- 
igan. The grounds com- 
prise nearly thirty acres, the entire east- 
ern line extending along Pine Lake, and 
its northern boundary being the waters 
of Round Lake. 

Charlevoix as a Summer resort has • 



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THE SPORTSMAN'S AND TOURIST'S GUIDE. 



much ia common with the other places 
in this delig]itful region — such as its 
pure air, clear waters, and an ample 
supply of the choicest wliite-fi=li ni]d 
lake trout, to say naught ol 
the ether fine fish, ^u.h as* 
bass, perch, grayling, and 
speckled trout, found in the 
neighborhood, upon which 
the guest is regaled. Some 
of its disthiguishiug features 
may be specified: Its situa- 
tion, between Lake Miclii- 
gan on the north and west, 
and Pine Lake, eighteeii 
miles long, on the east, 
makes it pre-eminently a 
choice place for a Summer 
residence. With scarcely 
the exception of a single day 
through all the hot mouths 
of the year, a reft-eshing 
breeze blows either from the 
one or the other of these two 
sheets of water. There is 
no wet or marshy ground in 
or near the resort. The 
land rises by two natural 
terraces, each about fifteen 
or twenty feet high, with a 
wide expanse between them, 
thus greatly increasing the 
beauty of the location. The 
facilities for bathing are su- 
perior, as the waters of Pine 
Lake in the Summer are 
not too cool to make a bath 
unc( mfortable, the smooth 
beach sloj ing so gently to- 
ward deep water that the 
youngest children can bathe with per- 
fect safety. Small boats can be kept at 
the pier or along the shore, so com- 
pletely sheltered through all the Summer 
from the winds and the waves, that 



they need not be drawn" out of the wa- 
ter; while by sailing or rowing three- 
quarters of a mile through Round Lake 
find Piiip Iaivct. one mnv n;'ss fljroetly 




into Lake Michigan. This is only one 
of several advantages possessed by a 
place which is situated upon an inland 
lake, while it is at the same time within 
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HUNTING AND FISUTNG GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 201 



Two steamboats — the Gazelle and iVeZ- 
lie Booth — make excursions twice a 
day, alternating with each other, in 
running to the head of the lake and up 
the south arm. These delightful trips 
form one of the chief attractions of the 
place to those who love to be upon the 
water, but are disquieted by the rough- 
ness of the great lakes. The gamey 
bass, perch, and other kinds of small 
tish may be caught any day from the 
pier, or along the shore of Round Lake, 
and there are numerous trout streams in 
the vicinity. The Boyne River may be 
easily reached every day; but to all 
lovers of good fishing, the chief recom- 
mendation of Charlevoix is its proximity 
to the great trout stream of Michigan. 
It is, in fact, the rendezvous for tourists 
and sportsmen who frequent the Jor- 
dan, as opportunity is given twice every 
day of going by steamboat directly to 
the mouth of that river. 

The fact that Charlevoix is not on 
the line of the railroad is not altogether 
a disadvantage, for many persons prefer 
to go to a Summer resort which is re- 
moved a short distance from the great 
lines of travel, provided it can be easily 
reached. 

Those who seek entire rest can find 
no better resort than this. Its retire- 
ment — the exceptional quiet and moral- 
ity of the adjoini'ig village — the view of 
the beautiful and peaceful waters of the 
inland lake — these, and the comgcnial 
company to be found in the hotel and 
the cottages, combine to make the place 
a restful and refreshing resort. 

A stage runs from Petoi^key to Char- 
levoix and back every day. A stage also 
runs daily between Boyne Falls and the 
head of Pine Lake — a distance of six 
miles — connecting with steamboats to 
and from Charlevoix. There is commu- 



nication by steamer both with Petoskey 
and Traverse City, and steamboats from 
Chicago and Detroit also touch regu- 
larly. 

The Fountain City House, at this 
point, has made extensive repairs, and 
can now accommodate one hundred and 
twenty persons. 

As before stated, this village is the 
rendezvous for those Avho seek the clas- 
sic shades of the Jordan for I'ccreation, 
pleasure and trout. 

During the season of 1879 several 
parties from Chicago fished the streams 
running into the chain of lakes emptying 
into Elk Rapids, and in June a certain 
party captured four hundred trout in a 
few days, and had a splendid time sailing 
and boating on the lovely waters, be- 
sides the fun of taking the fish. These 
lower lakes have been neglected by fish- 
ermen, except in a few instances when 
those posted have enjoyed the fine fish- 
ing obtainable there. 

" For black bass fishing, the lower 
end of Torch Lake — the Narrows en- 
tering into Elk Lake — will produce big 
fellows that will satisfy the most cap- 
tious of fishermen, both for gameness 
and weight. 

" We love this northern country — its 
clear, dry air, its cool nights, the ab- 
sence of malaria, the pure, sparkling 
waters, the beautiful scenery — all cap- 
tivate and entrance us. 

" The ride down the Jordan, with a 
careful guide, leaving us to enjoy the 
sweet do-nothing but lave our hands in 
the cool waters, is worth the trip up the 
river; every few hundred yards bring us 
to something striking in the beauties of 
the rushing flood. Pine Lake is eighteen 
miles long by about four in width, and 
alter leaving the north end of the en- 
trance there is not a shoal cr dangerous 



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spot in it." Torch Lake, the next point 
of interest, is reached by steamer from 
Charlevoix. It is situated about one- 
half mile from Grand Traverse Bay, at 
the head of the beautiful sheet of water 
bearing the same name. Here we find 
the well-known Frank Lewis House, kept 
by the genial Frank Lewis, and <ientr- 
ously patronized. Passengers arc trsins- 
ferred free of cost from the landing on 
the bay. A few sreps from the hotel 
bri!;gs the tourist to the little pier from 
whence the fine side - wheel steiinier 
Queen of the Lakes starts on her trip 
through the chain of inland lakes to Elk 
Rapids. She is of iron, very commo- 
dious, luxuriously equipped, and can 
carry a large mi in her of passengers. She 
is owned by Dtxter & Noble, a firm 
which has a blast furnace, mills and 
large stores at Elk Rapids. Steaming 
a few miles down the lake, and crossing 
to the eastern shore, she touches at a 
landing known as " Russell's," where a 
stage is in readinese to convey visitors 
to the Intermediate Lake, where there 
is a rough but comfortable home known 
as the " Island Camp." If the tourist 
desires, he can be dropped at the mouth 
of Clam Lake, flowing into the east side 
of Torch Lake. Passing up Clam Lake, 
he will presently come to a "narrows" 
leading into Grass Lake, which is joined 
to Intermediate Lake by Grass River, a 
stream affording fine fishing. Continu- 
ing down Torch Lake to its lower end, 
the steamer enters Torch River, a crook- 
ed stream three miles long with charm- 
ing windings through the woods, and 
thence passes into Round Lake, a body 
of water about two miles in breadth by 
four in length. From Round Lake you 
pass into another connecting channel 
called the " Narrows," which leads to 
Elk Lake. Rapid River enters Torch 



River about midway, and this too is a 
fine trout stream. Passing through Elk 
Lake, the steamer reaches Elk Rapids, 
its destination. This trip is one contin- 
ued, long-drawn-out pleasure, and we 
cannot do better than offer Uie words of 
a correspondent, who, in the Chicago 
Inter Ocean, contributes the following: 
" 1 can truly and gratefully write that I 
have never found a more desirable spot 
than this lake region which lies Eas-t of 
Grand Traverse Bay. Fishing is good. 
It is good everywhere ; from under the 
shadow of the mills to the farthest end 
of Intermediate Lake no fisherman will 
find reasonable ground for dissatisfac- 
tion, either in quantity or variety. Mus- 
kalonge, bass, pickerel and white-fish 
abound in the lakes, while the tributary 
streams furnish trout and grayling of 
goodly size. Boarding the steamer 
Queen of the Lakes, on Elk River, 
within a few hundred yards of the wa- 
ters of Traverse Bay, we went through 
the length of the short river, only three- 
quarters of a mile, and entered Elk Lake, 
which is surrounded by firm, hard shores, 
covered by timber, and gently sloping 
to the water's edge. There is little or 
no marsh, and the water is remarkably 
clear." 

Elk Lake is :il)out nine miles long and 
from one to tlint- miles wide. Leaving 
Elk Lake, you enter Round Lake, some 
three miles long by one and a half miles 
wide. Except in size, its general char- 
acteristics are the same as those of Elk 
Lake, its inlet is Torch River, which 
flows for three miles through a cedar and 
tamarack swamp — not an unpleasant 
change by way of variety. The wind- 
ings of this stream are so sharp that 
some labor is necessary to make it easily 
navigable. Torch Lake is the grandest 
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Tlie water in tlie upper end of Torch 
River, above the entrance of Rapid Riv- 
er, is astonisliingly clear, and in this re- 
spect it is doubted if it is exceeded any- 
where in the world. It is fully as clear 
as that of Lake George, and some say 
that nothing but actual demonstration 
can make them believe that Lake Tahoe 
excels it. A silver five-cent piece, it is 
said, has been seen on the bottom at a 
depth of thirty feet, and the captain of 
the boat will corroborate tlie statement, 
and will also tell you that he has seen the 
bottom of a broken tea-cup at a depih 
of sixly feet. It is marvelously trans- 
parent. The average depth of the lake 
is two hundred feet. It is eighteen miles 
long and two to three wide. Its banks 
are similar to those of Elk Lake, the 
hills toward to the northern end being 
considerable higher, with headlands jut- 
ting out in a manner reminding one of 
the Upper Hudson. About a third of 
the way up this lovely sheet of water is 
the outlet to Clam Lake, and of a sub- 
sidiiry chain of lakes which branch out 
of the eastern side of the Torch, like the 
lobster's claw. The whitefish of Torch 
Lake are said to be flner and larger than 
those of the great lakes, and are consi- 
derod the best \n the world.' About 
three miles from the northern end of the 
lake stands the Lewis House, on a strip 
of high land, half a mile wide, separat- 
ing the waters of the lake from those of 
Lake Michigan. This establishment ac- 
commodates over a hundred guests, is 
delightfully situated, and well kept, fresh- 
ly-oaught being one of the items of the 
bill of fare. 

Resuming the trip, a few miles south, 
and across to the east shore, is what is 
what, is designated out of courtesy " Rus. 
ssell's Landing," minus any dock, and 
embellished with a single log house, at 



a horse and wagon can be hired to con- 
vey you to Cenral Lake, about four miles 
distant, through thickly wooded hills. 
Central Lake is one of the members of 
the " Jntermediate" chain, and about in 
the middle of it. Intermediate Loke is 
well stock with muskalorge, weighing 
from eight to ten pounds, and also with 
[lickeiel ai:d black bass. At the foot of 
Intermediate Lake, about six miles from 
Elk Rapidr. is an island adajited for 
cumping. Rut the most enjoyable fea- 
ture of a trip through the Intermediate 
chain of lakes, is the passage through 
the Intermediate River, which is no less 
than three miles of rapids, not danger- 
ous, for the water is not deep enough 
to drown, but enough so to be pleasur- 
ably exciting. With forests on both 
sides, the stream runs over a stony and 
pebbly bed with a velocity that will re- 
I quire all the l)oatman's experience and 
skill to pilot you safely along. Occa- 
sionally the boat will grind on the bot- 
tom; sometimes one end will catch and 
s nd you waltzing down the current; at 
other times the guides will jump out and 
pull you over the shallower places. It 
is a joyous, rollicking race; all Nature 
laughing, evm to the woods that shuts 
yuii in. Hall way through. Cedar River 
comes dancing in with its clear, ice-cold 
water from the hills; and the two streams 
joined together roll ou to Grass Lake: 
Grass Lake is a sheet of water not far 
from three miles either in length or 
width, and is the best locality for fishing 
in the whole chain. Grass River is a 
winding canal, four miles long, flowing 
into Clam Lake; is lined with reeds, and 
has a deep, silent current. Clam Lake 
is about five miles long, with an average 
width of half a mile; it is hemmed in by 
the same wooded hills as the other lakes, 
with, perhaps, a few more clearings. The 



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stream conuectiiij^ it with Torch Lake is 
very short. 

Elk llapinds enjoys good facilities of 
transportation, being reached during the 
season by boat service twice daily, and 
connecting with the outgoing trains Irom 
Traverse City, eighteen miles distant. 
The fishing privileges in this neighbor- 
hood are exceptionably fine, brook trout 
of large size and in considerable num- 
bers having been taken from the waters 
of the lake from off the dock in the vil- 
lage. Bass Lake (distant one mile) is 
full of bass and pickerel, and a fisherman 
need never return empty liauded thence. 
Yuba Creek (emptying into the bay six 
miles toward Traverse City) is a very 
fine trout stream. A party of five Illi- 
joisans who fished this creek two days 
in 1879 caught nearly six hundred brook 
Trout. Within a distance of seven miles 
li-om Elk Rapids down Elk Lake, three 
streams of water strike the lake from 
which are taken large numbers of spec- 
kled trout, Follett's — the middle one — 
i'eing the best fishing ground. Rapid 
River (emptying into Torch River near 
the foot of Torch Lake) and Spencer 
iJreek (flowing into Torch Lake) are un- 
ixeelled in quantity of trout contained; 
and Clam, Grass, and Intermediate lakes 
contain in infinite number the gamey 
bass, pickerel, &c., while trout and gray- 
fing are taken from the Cedar Creek 
(which flows into Grass River) in fair 
quantities. The elegant and commodi- 
ous steamer Queen of the Lakes leaves 
this place on its daily trip through the 
chain of lakes for Torch Lake, whence 
it returns in time to make connections at 
Elk Rapids with the steam yacht Jennie 
A. Sutton for Traverse City and inter- 
mediate points. From Elk Rapids to 
Traverse City the interest of the journey 
is well sustained. A glance at a map 



will show that Grand Traverse Bay is 
bisected by a narrow peninsula or cape 
which the steamer has to double. Elk 
Rapids is on the eastern arm of the bay 
and Xorthport on the extreme north, 
and Traverse City at the foot of the 
western arm. The steamer first crosses 
the east aim from Elk Rapids to Mission 
Point, an old French missionary station, 
and then runs due north until it reaches 
Northport. This town is delightfully 
situated on ground rising gently from the 
water's edge, and commands a fine view 
of the bay. It is one of the healthiest 
towns in the Traverse Region. Its en- 
tire freedom from mosquitoes and gnats, 
its cool, l)racing lake breeze, abundance 
of the finest fish, pure and clear water, 
and its fine fruit, make it one of the most 
desirable places to rest during the hot 
Summer mojiths that can be found. A 
pleasant drive of two miles brings one to 
the shore of Lake Michigan, whence of- 
ten may be seen as many as fifty sail and 
steam vessels bound up or down, for at 
this point the commerce of the great 
lakes is concentrated within a highway 
of a few miles. Magnificent views are 
obtainable over old Father Michigan's 
waters — in the distatce the Empire and 
Sleeping Bear bluQs, and the Manitous, 
Fox, and Beaver islands being cleaily in 
sight, and drawing steady gaze upon 
their outlines. Good accommodations 
may be had at Nortiiport I y those wish- 
ful to enjoy the pleasures of that place; 
the hotel is good, and several private 
families will provide for a limited num- 
ber of guests. 

Leaving this town by the bay steamer 
you strike a southerly course, and after 
a pleasant ride of a few hours reach 
Traverse City in good season for sup- 



per. 



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tlie milling torrents of New Ilampsbire, 
Maine, Northern New York, &c., and 
to these and all who love the woods an 
invitation is extended to visit this Laud 
of Northern Michigan, and on the word 
of one who has traversed the whole sec- 
tion, after wandering throngh this Grand 
Traverse Region, enjoying its superb 
hunting and fishing, feasting the eye and 
imagination upon the enchanting scenes 
presented to the gaze, and drinking in 
health at every inspiration, your blood 
will course more swiftly through the 
veins than over before, and the memory 
of the happy days thus spent enable you 
to find more delight in the sunny air and 
assist you making Old Time himself but 
the treasurer of your joys, 

DOWN IN JERSEY. 

The principal shooting in New Jersey 
is on the sea-board, and in Camden, 
Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem, CajDe May, 
Cumberland, and Ocean counties. There 
is an non-resident act in force in the State 
and no person is allowed to shoot or fish 
within its boundaries without complying 
with the by-laws of the West Jersey Game 
Protective Society, or those of some oth- 
er similar association. It is regretted 
that a large portion of the best game 
district of the State was ravished by 
extensive forest fires during the past 
Spring, and much valuable game de- 
stroyed 

Boach Haven is on the Atlantic coast, six 
miles from Tiickerton, and is located on Long 
Beach, a smooth, sandy proniontor}*, with the 
ocean on one side and Little I'^g-"^ Harbor — ex- 
tending: a distance of twentj'-fonr miles — o;: 
the other, pjivinn: it unsurpassed facilities for 
gunning and fi.-hing. All the different varie- 
ties of snipe, curlew, geese, ducks, and brunt, 
and other wild fowl are found in fair nutnViers, 
iind some seasons they arc ab.=olulcly abun- 
dant. Rabbits are found on tiie island, and 



quail on the main land. The inlet is a splen- 
did sheet of water, and oifers extra attractions 
to those who delight in hauling in the gamey 
bluefish, the noble striped bass, the magnifi- 
cent Spanish mackerel, the pugilistic sheeps- 
head, and the plucky weakfish — all game and 
lull of fight — not to mention those of lesser 
note, such as black fish, porgies, flounders, ic. 
At Atlantic City, there is good duck and snipe 
shooting ; at Shrewsbury, fine quail-shooting; 
at Bed Bank, excellent snipe-shooting, with 
some woodcock and quail ; at Ocean Beach, 
snipe are abundant ; at Forked River, geese, 
brant, wild ducks, and bay birds abound, and 
woodcock, quail, English snipe, and rabbits are 
also quite plenty; at Hanover, Tom's River, 
and Waretown all the diffureut varieties of 
wild fowl and snipe, rabbits, woodcock, quail, 
and pigeons, are found. In season, Barnegat 
Bay is one of the best shooting grounds on 
the coast, being filled with ducks, geese, and 
brant. There are innumerable good points 
where they can be stqoled, and selection can 
be made from a dozen experienced gunners, 
who are provided with sneak-boats, decoys, &c. 
Bargenat Inlet is celebrated as the greatest 
fishing ground this side of Chesapeake Bay 
for bluefish, weakfish, sheepshead, Spanish 
mackerel, striped bass, sea bass, and all the 
other salt water varieties of fish. Barnegat is 
also a good quail district. At either of these 
points excellent salt-water fishing can be liad, 
the sport being about the same as at Beach 
Haven. The points here mentioned are accessi- 
ble via New Jersey Southern and Pennsylva- 
nia railroads. At most of the places alluded 
to, are hotels expressly for the accommodation 
of .-portsmen, where boats, baymen, decoys, 
and every requisite can be had. The charges 
at the hotels are moderate, and the tables ex- 
cellent. 

At Cape May and Seaville all the different 
varieties of wild fowl and snipe, and some few 
woodcock, are found, and excellent fit^hing for 
bluefish, sheepshead, and all the other salt- 
water varieties, can be had ; at Tnckahoe are 
quail, woodcock, ruffed grouse, snipe, rabbits, 
and squirrels, and the swamps and thick timber 
land are reported as containing a few deer. 
The adjacent marshes afford good rail shoot 
ing. The Cohansey Creek Meadows, a short 
distance from Cohansey, is an excellent snipe 
ground. Around Malaga are quail and ruQed 



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grouse, and the timber l;uid*, a slioit ilislHuce 
from llie village, are said to liaibor Home few 
derr. At Tovvnsend's Inlet wild fowl ;)iid 
snipe are plenty, and iboiil tlie s.imo sport at 
fisliing can be had lliere as at Cape May and 
Seaville. Tlie meadows in ilie neiprhborliood 
of Salem are (xivllent feeding grounds for a 



boat at Cape May. The hotel accommodations 
are ample at any of these points. 

Vomer's Point, E^g Harbor, is a good place 
for duck and snipe shooting and salt-water 
fisliifig, A smooth, sandj' promontory, being 
the strip nf beacli. seven miles in length, call- 
ed Pick's Island, separates the bay from the 




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lifif: 







large number of snipe. These points are on 
West Jersey Railroad, riiniiing Pliiladelphia 
(or Camden) to Cape May, and connecting at 
Vineland with New Jeisey Southern Railroad. 
For Tuckahoe, leave the cars al Point Kiiza- 
beth, theuce wagon ; and for Townscnd's In- 
let, leave oars at Noriii Denuysville, or take 



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.<e,-i, and forms o pital gr(-niids I'or ni.nrlin, wil- 
let, cnilew, and robin snipe, il^at ar< brought 
within gun shot bydeco3s and by injitating 
their notes. The months of August and Sep- 
tember are ilie best for snipe-shooting. Dur- 
ing the Fall and Winter mouths llie bay is 
visiiid by innumerable wdd fowl of every de 



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COATESVILLE BRIDGE, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. 



Kcription, afiordiug capital sport. Rabbits are 
quite plenty and lufifed grouse and occasional- 
ly a deer, ii is said, are started in the adjacf-nt 
woods. The hotel accommodations are good, 
and the charges reasonable. Reached by Cam- 
den & Atlantic Railroad. 

At Perth Amboy are quail, rufi'ed grouse, 
and a few woodcock ; there is also excellent 
fishing in the vicinil}'. Ciieese Creek, a short 
distance from Perth Amboj, is a noted resort 
for anglers who delight in captuGing slieeps- 
Ijead, striped bass, blaekfish, weakfish, King- 
fish, bluefish, porgies, &c. Cheese Creek is 
also the feeding ground for mallards, sprig- 
tails, black ducks, shore birds, jack snipe, and 
other varieties of wild fowl and the snipe fam- 



ily. At South Amboy are ruffed grouse and 
quail, and also some few woodcock. At the 
Old Bridge and Spottswood good rabbit shoot- 
ing can be had. At Cranberry are quail, wood- 
cock, and squirrels, rabbits and squirrels be- 
ing quite abundant. Tliese places are on the 
Pennsylvania Railrood, Camden & Amboy Di- 
vision, and east of Bordentown. At Eorden- 
town, almost within the corporate limits of the 
village, there is an extensive piece of marsh 
land, called "The Meadows," that are excel- 
lent feeding grounds for snipe and woodcock ; 
and all tiie thickets around the mill-pond at 
•'The Meadow," and along the stream extend- 
ing about a mile southeast to Reeve's Mill 
Pond, are also good woodcock grounds. " The 



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Hollow," on " Uncle David " Hat ce's farm, j Lambertville is n iinied place for yellow perch. 



liulf a mile from the vilijij-e, used lo lea fii- 
moiis location lor nbbiis ,te. On ilie Siinie 
lino, easy of ;iccesH from Pliiladelpliia, at Be- 
verly, there is pood fisjiinf;. At Moorestou-ii. 
two miles from Hiirlfoid areqii;iil and wood- 



At Belvidere arc niffel fironse, quail, wood- 
cock, and snip;-, and good fishing in th'- Dela- 
ware, Pcquest Creek, and Green Pond, about 
four !nile- disuinr, fur blacl< bass, ^t^iped bass 



(r..ck-lisli). M 



id pick" ret. Good 




cock ; and at Delanco, where the Raiicocas 
River empties its waters into the Delaware, 
there is e.iccellont rail sliooling. The Ranco- 
cas Creek, in the vicinity of Mount Holly, is 
stocked with trout. On the Belvidere Division 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Bull'slsland, 
are quail, rabbits, and squirrels, and exceilenl 
black bass- fishing iu the Delaware River. 



hotel accommodations can be liad at any o< 
the places mentioned. 

Tuckerton and Beach Haven are on the At- 
lantic coast, and are reached by Pennsylvania 
Railroad to Pemberton Junction, Pemberton 
,t New York Railroad lo Wliiiings, and Tuck, 
erton Railroad to Tuckerton. Tuckerton is 
celebrated for the attractions it offers to fish. 



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ermen and sportsmen — the many inlets pene- 
trating it beiu? tiie resort of everj' variety of 
wild fowl and the homes of some oftlie finest 
and giiniest salt water fl.-h in America. Boat- 
ing on these landlocked waters is sufe and 
pleasant. Tuckerton is a centre for tliese at- 
tractions, and furnishes superior accommoda- 
tions to Slimmer tourists. Beach Haven is 
six miles from Tuckerton. It is located on 
LongBuacli, a smootii, sandy promontorj', hav- 
ing the ocean on one side and Little Egg Har- 
bor Inlet on the other, and is readied by steam- 
boat from Tuckerton. The facilities of Beach 
Haven exeed any, undoubtedly, along the Jer- 



tlie Atlaniic on the other, only separated by 
a beach half a mile in width, makes it not only 
deli^lufiilly cool, but a perfect sauitorium for 

j those suneriiig from hay fever. Bathing at 
Beacli Haven has a prominent place among 
other amusement'^, as the hotels aie in close 
proximiiy to the beacli, which has a gentle 
incline, wiih little or no undertow. Board 
ranges from $8 to $10 a week, with a fine ta- 

i ble supplied with all the luxuries of the sea- 
son, including the choicest fish and fowl, fresh 

I Irom the b«y. 

The celebrated snipe and woodcock grounds, 
known as the Big and Little Piece, are balf- 




sey coast, and the beautiful bay, extending for 
sixteen to twenty miles, affords great sport to 
tlio'^e fond of sailing The fishing is very fine, 
and almost eveiy hour of the day parlies of 
ladies and gentlemen, though only amateurs, 
come into the hotels carryiuir strings o fish 
to the number of hundreds. The bay — only a 
stone's throw from the hotel porches — is stud- 
ded with a thousand islands, which abound 
with willet, marliu curlew, yellow-legs, do- 
wiihers, black-breasted plover, robin snipe, 
and all the dfferent kinds of wading birds, and 
in the Fall and Spring the bay is a noted re- 
sort for ducks, geese, and brant. Such fi.sli- 
ing, gunning, and sailing does not belong to 
any otiier resort along the New Jersey coast. 
The fact of Beach Haven being six miles from 
mainland, and with the bay on one side and 



ENNSYLVAXIA RAILROAD. 

way between Patersonand Newark. English 
(or Wilson) snipe ai;e the most abundant, and 
for several weeks in the Spring and Fall the 
meadows are filled with shooters. The birds 
are as numerous now as they were twenty or 
thirty y^-arsago, but the hunters have so mul- 
tiplied that they often ontnumber the birds, 
and it is only those that are fortunate enough 
to reach the ground when the flight is at its 
height that are able to make a respectable 
bag. Black ducks are also sometimes found. 
The meadows are some twelve miles distant 
from any railroad station, and are reached only 
wagon or tramping. 

Echo Lake Deckertown, and Newfoundland 
are accessible via New Jersey & New Yoik 
Railroad. Echo Lake, noted for its large and 
abundant pickerel, is six miles from Charlottes- 



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burg, reached by team. At Deckertown are 
ruflFed grouse, quail, woodcock, and rabbits; 
and in tiie neighboriiood of Newfoundland are 
good trout streams, and also some woodcock, 
rufiTed grouse, quail, and rabbits. 



birds, and splendid fishing for bluefish, sheeps- 
head, and other varieties of salt-water fish. 

Summit Lake (near tlie village of that name) 
contains black bass, pickerel, and perch, and 
in the neighborhood of Plainfield are quaih 




niQUFS ROOK, PFNNSYLVANIA HAH.ROAI). 



Marlboro' and Squau Beacli are i eached via i 
Freehold & Jamesburg Railroad. At Marl- 
boro' are quail, woodcock, pigeons, snipe, and j 
plover; at Squau Beach excellent shooting I 
can be had at all kinds of wild fowl and bar ' 



woodcock, and rabbits. These two places aie 
on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. 

In the vicinity of Newton, on the Susses. 
Railroad, are quail, ruffed grouse, woodcock, 
»nd rabbits. Ruffed grouse are quite plenty. 



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Lake Wawayanda, near Voriioii, a pleasant 
drive fioni Xewlou, is an exoelleul place for 
black bass. 

Matawan and Uolmdel are good points for 
qnail and rabbits shooting. Matawan is ac- 
cessible by wagon from Keyport, and Holm- 
del is but a short drive from Red Bank. Key- 
port and Red Bank are easily reached from 
New York by I oat and rail. 

IN THK KEYSTONE STATE 

There are many localitii's in Peniisyl- 
vauia where excellent shooting and lish- 
iug can be iiad. A region exist on the 
eastern border of the State, containing 
thousands on thousands of acres, never 
trodden by human feet, over which roam 
'arge game in the greatest abnnduncf-, 
including deer, bears, and wild cats; the 
section is traversed by innumerable trout 
str ams, that afford the very best of 
sp irt. The (ish are not as large as those 
taken in the Rangeley Lakes and the 
Canadian waters, but what they lack in 
size they make up in game qualities and 
most delicious flavor. Most of this vast 
tract of land lies in Pike county, and is, 
as before stated, but sparsely settled, and 
wild in the extreme, and consequently 
has not been " fished to death." Its 
surface is covered witli primitive forests, 
and is made up of lofty mountains and 
lovely valleys, and traversed l)y streams 
of pure, ice-cold spring water, with beau- 
tiful lakes and superb waterfalls. In some 
respects this vast game range is a sort 
of miniature Yellowstone region. The 
best game quarters are said to be the 
Paupack Ridges, the Green township for- 
ests, and the long range of mountains 
extending back of Dingman's to Porter's 
Lake. To those who can make tlieir 
home in the woods this vast tract offers 
unusual inducements. 

There is no part of the Alleghanies that 
offer more attractions to sportsmen than 



the extensive wilds of Potter and Elk 
counties, the Cheat River Country of 
West Virginia alone excepted. The en- 
tire section abounds in game and trout, 
but those who go there must go pre- 
pared to " rough it," for, excepting an 
occasional hunter's camp or some lone 
settler's cabin, there is scarcely a habi- 
tation to be found. The Pine and Ket- 
tle Creek regions are Avell known deer 
preserves, where they occasionally vary 
the sport with a wolf hunt, a bear chase, 
or a panther tight, and fill up spare time 
shooting squirrels, hares, grouse, «&;c. 

The vast forests of hemlock, spnice, 
and pine, in Carbon, Luzerne, and Sulli- 
van counties still retain their natural 
wildness, and form a wide home for the 
deer, tiie bear, and the panther, together 
with innumerable squirrels and all kinds 
of feathered game. Here, among the 
rocky lastnesses, they still range in con- 
siderable numbers, and are but little 
hunted save by a few indefatible sport- 
men who occasionally visit that section. 
The extensive swamps and large num- 
bers of small lakes for which these coun- 
ties are noted, ofter splendid grounds for 
either still-hunting or hounding. These 
counties contain numerous well-stocked 
trout streams, and almost every river, 
lake, and pond have an abundance of 
pike, pickerel, black bass, &c. In the 
neighborhood of Bear Creek Station is 
good grouse shooting, and squirrels can 
be found almost anywhere in the woods. 

ON THE PEXNSYLNANIA RAILROD. 

Railroads being now the common high- 
ways of our land, it is but natural that 
their managers should seek to accommo- 
date the travelirg propensity of the peo- 
ple, and now almost every important line 
in the United States makes a prominent 
feature of Its " Summer Excursions," to 




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the many pleasant places and scenes of 
uote and the hunting and fishing grounds 
throughout the country. Tlie attractions 
presented to the sportsman and tourist 
along the. route of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad are unequalled by any other 
line in the Union. It has so aniplied its 
system of " Summer Excursion Romes," 
until nmv they cxtt nd to nli the noted 
hunting and fishing grounds and through 
all the varied and interesting scenery 
for which the Middle, Eastern, Northern, 
aud Southern States are celebrated. The 
numerous and widely diverging lines of 
the company, following the courses of 
beautiful rivers, penetrating the fast- 
nesses of giant mountains, reaching the 
restless waves of the mighty ocean, and 
meandering through romantic vales to 
breezy heights, afford facilities for plea- 
sure travel unrivaled on the whole conti- 
nent. Not only are the routes offered 
by the company extended aud varied in 
their attractions, leading to many well- 
stocked game ranges and most excellent 
trout streams, but the accommodations 
provided over and along them are as per- 
fect as skill and liberality can produce. 
The Summer tourist can select Irom the 
routes it offers a jaunt of a few miles ur 
a journey of thousands. But whether his 
vacation be limited to a few days or ex- 
tended to months — whether he seeks the 
shade of a snburl) or the attractions of 
remote resorts — the same care will at- 
tend. him and the same comfort surround 
him. He will be neither hurried nor de- 
layed while on his journey ; he c-an pause 
where attractions are blended, and when 
^inclined " pursue the even tenor of his 
■;- way," taking his trout here and bagging 
his game there, and when he returns to 
the busy hum «if life at the expiration 
of his furlong, will commend the Penn- 
sylvania line to all who purpose " ram- 



l)Iing by rail," or desire to reach some of 
the many excelUnt hunting and grounds 
along the route. 

Butler, Dcwuingloii, Middleton, llarrif- 
burf, Blairsville, Saltsbiirg, Columbia, Dun- 
car.noD, Ciesson, Uniolilown (reached from 
Connelsville), and some other points are all 
good centres for ruffed grouse, quail, wood- 
cock, and rabbits. Bedford, Alloona, Wil- 
j liamsburg, Tyrone. Epeusburg, Bellefonte, 
I Clearfield, Connelsville (readied also by Bal- 
timore A Ohio Railroad), Brownsville (reached 
I from Connelsville), tlollidaysburg. Chestnut 
Ridge, ludian Creek Valley, and Laurel Hill 
(the three last named near Connelsville), 
I Mount Union, Huntingdon, Mifflntowu (reach- 
j ed from Perrysville), Muncy, Lewistown, and 
Eaglesville, in addition to ilie game already 
mentioned, are all good points for deer, bears, 
and wild turkeys, aud can all be reached by 
Pennsylvania Railroad. 
I At Blairsville are some turkeys, and at Col- 
umbia are numerous wild ducks. At Harris- 
burg quail and woodcock are tbund in con- 
siderable numbers near the city limits. Yoik 
Hills, a few miles below, is a good place for 
rabbits, woodcock, and squirrels. Yellow- 
legged plover are found in large numbers on 
the flats opposite McCormick's Island. All 
tlie different varieties of wild fowl are shot a 
short distance above the city. Squirrels — 
gray and red — as well as foxes, minks, and 
weasels, are killed in large numbers in Blue 
Mountain. 

Cresson, situated almost ou the summit of 
the Allegheny Mountains, where they are 
crossed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, at an 
altitude of 2,000 feel above the level of the 
sea, is a very popular resort. The sportsman 
will find game of all kinds! abundant. Squir- 
rels are very numerous. The hotel accommo- 
dations are of the best kind ; the atmosphere 
is deliciously cool atid pure. Shade Mountain, 
near Mifflintown, is an excehent locality for 
bear. In most of the places nan-od the coun- 
try is wild and mountainous, and game actu- 
ally plenty. PIbensburg, the seat of justice of 
Cambria county, is situated on the western 
slope of the Allegheny Mountains, eleven 
miles from Cresson, with wliich point it is 
connected by a branch railroad. The situa- 
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summil, and from the centre otits mnia street 
the horizon sinks ;iwriy in all directions — the 
sun setting below the level of the observer. 
Dense forests of hemlock, beech, and other 
varieties of American mountain woods, are ac- 
cessible ill all directions, the roagds leadin 
through them afford delightful drives, while 
bringing into view many bits of charming scen- 
ery, relieved by the soft ferns aud ihick-grow- 
iug laurel, nourished to porlection by the 
limpid vaters everywhere issuing from the 
gigantic mountain, lis altitude gives Ebens- 
burg a delightluUy cool aud bracing atmos- 
phere — the air coming freely from the long 
reaches' of primeval verdure, laden with a rich 
fragrance as graielul to the senses as it is in- 
vigorating to the system. Por years the town 
lias been a lavorite letort for families, who 
come here early in the season and remain till 
the fiosis of Autumn indicate a return of salu- 
brity to the crowded cities. The accommoda- 
tions provided for these sojourners are on an 
extensive scale, and probably as much quiet 
enjoyment is to be had there as at any place 
of the kind in America. At nearly all the 
points are comfortable hotels. At Tyrone, 
Ebensburg, Bellefonte, Clearfield, and one or 
two other points, it is best to go prepared to 
camp. 

The State of Pennsylvania is noted for its 
wealth 01 scenic beauty and atmospheric pur- 
ity, and many popular resorts are located with- 
in its borders which present juat claims for 
public favor. It is rarely, however, that one 
can be found anywhere combining in its adap- 
tion to the purposes of health and pleasure so 
many excellent features as the Logan House, 
Altoona. It is situated at the head of Logan 
Valley, on the main hue of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, and on the easteru slope of the Al- 
legheny Mountains. The locality is twelve 
hundred feet above the level of the sea, and 
in an atmosphere of more than ordinary purity, 
under the influence of which asthmatic suffer- 
ers and the victims of hay fever find imme- 
diate and complete relief. Altoona especially 
appeals for tlie favor of Summer tourists in 
the variety and exteut of its surronnding at- 
tractions and the number of interesting ob- 
jective points for short trips by rail or car- 
nage. The scenery in the locality is of the 
most varied description, and represents within 
a radius of a few miles a gradual transition 



from the graceful and picturesque to the rug- 
ged and sublime. A short distance west is 
the famous " Horseshoe Curve." The valley 
here separates into two chasms, but by a 
grand curve, the sides of which are for some 
distance paialKl with each other, the road 
crosses both ravines on a high embankment, 
cuts away the point of the mountain dividing 
them, and sweeps around and up the stupen- 
dous western wall. Looking eastward from 
the curve, the view is peculiarly impressive, 
while at Allegrippus, where the majesljr of 
the mounlaius seem to culminate, the vast 
hills in successive ranges roll away in billowy 
swells to the far horizon, the prospect being 
only bounded by the power of vision. Twice 
each day during the Summer open " observa- 
tion cars" are attached to the day express 
trains, and make the round trip between Cres- 
son and Altoona, enabling passengers to see 
with ease and pleasure the unsurpa!^sed scen- 
ery of the Alleghenies. Opportunity is af- 
forded for another pleasing diversion by the 
vicinity on the north of ' the Wopsononoc 
Mountain, easily accessible to carriages, from 
whose summit is spread before the eye a pan- 
oramic view which is, in the opinion of ex- 
perienced travelers, unsurpassed upon either 
continent in all those features which delight 
and inspire. It comprises the entire valley of 
the " Blue Juniata," a picture of highly-culti- 
vated iarms and smiling peace and plenty, 
bounded by swelling ranges of hills, which 
gradually fade away in the asure of the dis- 
tant horizon. The celebrated " Sinking Spring 
Valley," with its subterranean streams and 
immense caverns, lies to the eastward, while 
on the southeast is the Bell's Gap Narrow 
Guage Eailroad, excursions by which, to the 
summits of the mountains, are among the 
most satisfactory and popular diversions of 
life at the " Logan." The views in thislocal- 
ty are less extended and open. The valleys 
beconie huge ravines, from which the hills 
rise on either side almost precipitously. The 
grade of the road rises one hundred and fifty 
feet to the mile, and as the duminutive trains 
creep up and along the sides of the vast am- 
phitheatre of lining green, the scene is such 
as to defy the power of pens description. To 
the facilities of the Logan House for supply- 
ing the " creature comforts," no elaborate al- 
lusion is necessary. It has long enjoyed the 



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reputalioD of being one of the most complete- 
ly appointed hotels in tiie country, and since 
its erection, has served as m model for many 
similar institutions. The sys-teiu of electric 
bells has recently been introduced. The 
building itself, surrounded by broad piazzas, 
its elegant furnishing, its table and entire 
management, l^^ave notliiuir 'o he desired, 



tain streams in the vicinity abound in trout, 
rendering the locality a paradise for the an- 
gler. Altoona is but eight hours' ride from 
Philadelphia and Baltimore, ten from New 
York, and three from Pittsburg. Passengers 
from these points are assured of transporta- 
tion facilities of the most perfect character via 
the Pennsylvania and Northern Central Rail- 




while the elevated site and charming sur- 
roundings combine to render the Logan House 
one of the most delightful health and pleasure 
resorts in the country. The large and beau- 
tifully shaded lawn affords a line Held for 
croquet and other out-door sport, while with- 
in ten-pin alleys, billiard tables, &c., provide 
ample facilities for recreation. All the moun- 



roads, ooniprising the best passenger coache* 
of the regular equipment, and the finest Pull- 
man palace cars run through, without delays, 
on fast schedule time. 

Renovo, Shiunamahouing, Ridgway, Wil- 
cox, St. Mary's, Sunbury, Coudersport, Em- 
porium, and "Warren are on the Philadelphia 
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and are all good points for deer, bears, pin- 
thers, riilTed grouse, quail, woodcock, rabbits, 
squirrels, &c. The coiiutrj-^ is generally wild, 
and in some places camping onl is compul- 
sory—as for instance Coudersport, Sliinnama-, 
honing, Ridgway, and Emporium, which are 
numbered among the best hunting districts in 
the State. Emporium is a fine location for 
deer. The country is very wild, the surface 
being broken by liills, ravines, streams and 
heavy limber. Deer were unusually abun- 



starting points for woodcock, quail, ruflfed 
grouse; rabbits, Ac. Near Ralston are a good 
many bears and deer, for which latter sport 
eo prepared to camp. Teams and guifles may 
be had at the hotels (two) in the town, where 
good accommodations are obtainable. 

Good deer-hunting can be had at Lykenp, 
Williamstown, Grotz, Peters, Berry, and Short 
Mountains, easily accessible from Ilarrisburg, 
and up tlie Jtmiata in the Black Log, Tusca- 
rora, and Bald Eagle mountains. 



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darit in that section last Winter. Renovo is 
situated in a valley formed by a separation of 
mountain ranges rising around it to a height 
of more than a thousand feet, through which 
the west branch of the Susquehanna River 
glides in a placid and puUucid current, and 
may be said to lie almost in the heart of the 
great pine forests of Northern Pennsylvania, 
abounding in game, where the sportsman will 
find ample use for the gun. The hotel at Re- 
novo is large and comfortable, affording ac- 
commodations unsurpassed in excellence. 

Ralston, Bodinesville, and Trout Run, on 
the Northern Central Railroad, are excellent 



At Hamburg, Bloomsburgh, and Pottsville, 
are good starling points for quail, woodcock, 
ruffed grouse, rabbits, squirrels, 4c. Reached 
by Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Com- 
fortable hotels at all the places mentioned. 
At Kane, in the Allegheny Mountains, and on 
ihe same road, are deer, bears, panthers, and 
rabbits, in addition to woodcock, rufi"ed grouse, 
and wild pigeons. For deer and bear go pre- 
pared to make the woods your home. In the 
vicinity of Pottsville are a few deer and some 
wild turkeys. 

TowandD, Pen Haven, and Wilkesbare, on 
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, are good head- 




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quarters for ruffed grouse, quail, woodcock, 
&c. The extensive puie and hemlock forests 
in the viciuitj of Pen Haveu are full uf deer 
and bears; but, to pet sport, you will liave lo 
roujrh it. 

Stroudsburg, Moiiroo county, is located in 
the valley ol the Delaware, on Broadhead's 
Creek, about four miles from the river, and 
the same distance from the celebrated " Wa- 
ter Gap," and is noted for its abuimanl game 
fields. Added lo which are perfect fdcihties 
of access from Philadelphia and New York, 
bringing the region within a few hours' travel 
of those great cities. It is within easy access 
of the most attractive portions of the Dela- 
ware, the Lehigh, the Laekawaiui, and the 
Susquehanna Valleys, Making it. in all re- 
spects, a desirable resort for those seeking 
good hunting. Reached by Delaware, Lacka- 
wana & Western Railroad. 

North Mountain, near Shippensburg, about 
forty miles from Harrisburg, on tlie Cuniber- 
Jand Valley Railroad, are some wild turkeys. 

The Westbrook Meadows, in Pike county, 
just on the confines of Blooming Grove Park, 
have long been known as a capital ground for 
woodcock shooting 

Sellersville, on the Northern Pennsylvania 
Railroad, is a neighborhood where quail, 
woodcock, ruffed grouse, rabbits, kc, are 
abundant. 

Ruffed grouse, snipe, hares, around Lacka- 
waxen. A wagon ride of eight miles will 
bring the sportsman to Moses Wesibrook's, 
where good deer shooting can be had. Take 
Erie Railroad from New York. 

Gray squirrels are very numerous in the 
woods surrounding Sharon. This season, 
pheasants, quail, rabbits, and woodcock are 
reported as being more abundant in this sec- 
tion than for several years. Reached by Erie 
& Pittsburg and Atlantic .t Groat Western 
railroads. 

At Clinton, Raccoon Creek ( near Baden ) 
Quakertown, and New Brighton, on the Pitts- 
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, good 
shooting can be had at quail, woodcock, ruff- 
ed grouse, rabbits, and squirrels. Either of 
the places named are easy of access from 
Pittsburg. 

Capital grounds for Autumn cock-shooting 
can be found in the neighborhoods of Easton, 
Mauchchuuk, und Lehighton. The bird is 



known there as llie " slirups " and '• bog-bird,"' 
and is recognized only by few as woodcock. 
It is also a good section for ruffed grouse, 
quail, deer, rabbits, and squirrels. 

Gaymount is in the vicinity of good shoot- 
ing. Quail, woodcock, and ruffed grouse aie 
quite plenty, wliile rabbits and squiri-ijls are 
abundant. 

Good snipe and woodcock shooting imiy be 
had at Findlay's Lake, eigiit miles from North 
E;ist on the Lake Shore Railroad. Norih 
East is seventy-three miles from Buffalo, New 
York. 

AMON'G THE TROUT STUKAMS. 

In Lycoming county are many fine streams. 
Pine Creek is one of the best in the State. 
Trout Run, in the Laurel Mountains, is pro- 
perly designated. Lycoming Creek and its 
tributaries. Roaring Run, Pleasant Stream, 
Ralston Creek, and Loyal Sock, leached from 
Ralston ; Tim Gray's Run, and several other 
streams, of easy access from Bodinesville ; 
Lewis' Lake and other waters near Muncy; 
and the brofiks and streams in the vicinity of 
Trout Run, all afford good sport. 

Luzerne is the best watered county in the 
State, it is traversed in all directions by hne 
streams and dotted all over with small lakes, 
in which the angler can cast his line with 
every assurance of reaping a fair harvest of 
the speckled denizens. The Lackawana, Le- 
high, Nescopeck, Wapwallopcn, Tuucklianna, 
Falls Creek, Shickshiuny, Ilaryey's, Tobay's, 
Bouman's Huntingdon, Green's, Siony Creek, 
and several others, and all within a few miles 
of (.ither Wilkesbarre, Cisrbonilale, Penn Ha- 
ven, or White Haven, are all line trout 
streams. 

Tobyhanna and Fuuklianna creeks, near 
Tobyhanna Station, Broadhead's Creek, and 
all the sl'-eams around Stroudslnirg ; Horn- 
beck's, Dingham's, Adam's, Tom's, Mill, Colo, 
and others, in the vicinity of the Water Gap, 
Monroe county, and others, more fully do- 
scribed in " Pleasant Places along the Erie 
Railway," will yield an expert, one who iju- 
derstandeth the ways of trout, a fair number 
of fish. Pike county is lull of trout streams, 
and many of them are in the immediate vicin- 
ity of Milford — some of them flowing through 
the village. By making Milford headquarters, 
one cannot go amiss, and if he does not meet 
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does not know how to lure the speckled deni- 
zens from their native element. In the vicin- 
ity af Biisbkill, are the Bushkills, Pond Run, 
Saw and Tom's creeks, and several others, all 
good streams. 

Kettle Creek, Young; Woman's Creek, Bea- 
ver's Dam, Spicevvood River, Trout Fork, Ox 
Bow Bend, Paddy's Run, in the vicinity of 
Renovo, Lick Run, Bald Eagle Creek, and the 
streams northwest of Lock Haven ; Pine, Ket- 
tle, Driftwood and other streams, tributary to 
the Sinnamahini? River, near Emporium. The 
Clarion River and its tributaries, — Trout, 
Straight's, Clarion Creek, and some others, — 
easy of access from either Ridway, St. Mary's, 
or Wilcox; Nelson Run, Freeman's Run, 
Birch creek, the headwaters of East Fork, and 
many oilier streams, accessible from Wharton 
Mills, or Coudersport, are all good trout 
streams, and will j ield the angler good creel's. 
By locating at Emporium, all the best streams 
in Cameron county can be easily reached. 

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. 

In the vicinity of Lykens, Wdliamstown 
and Grotz, Peters, Berry, and Short moun- 
tains, some fine specimens of deer are killed. 
Occasionally a frightened buck or timid doe is 
run down to the Southern Slope of the Kitta- 
tinny's into the farming districts, four or five 
miles north of Harrisburg, and Cox's Island 
in the Susquehanna, four miles from Harris- 
burg, is a famous resort for duck-slayers dur- 
ing the Fall and Winter, and for shad-seining 
in the Spring. Wild turkeys are found in the 
valley skirting the Kiltatinny, Roberts, and 
Peters mountains — in Fishing Creek, Stony 
Creek, Clark's and Powell's valleys. The ma- 
jority of the deer hunters go up the Juniata 
River in quest of deer annually, to the Black 
Log, Tuscarora, and Bald Eagle mountains, 
and even beyond Altoona, along the Eastern 
Slope of the Alleghanies. 

Quail and woodcock are found within a few 
miles of Harrisburg. The farmers are pretty 
strict, however, and forbid their killing except 
for a money equivalent. The severe Winters 
of the few past years decimated the quail fam- 
ily cousiderablj', but hundreds of dollars were 
spent for birds from Virginia and milder cli- 
mates than Pennsylvania, and now they are 
becoming plentiful. 

York hills, eight miles below Harrisburg, 



is a fair locality for rabbits, gray squirrels, and 
woodcock. Up the river, on the flats opposite 
McCormick's Island, plover of the yellow-leg- 
ged variety are found in great numbers along 
the marshy grounds on the eastern shore of 
Maryland and Northern Virginia. They fly 
northward often when storms prevail in the 
localities where they abound farther south 
than Harrisburg. 

Jack-snipe may occasionally be shot alonj 
the Susquehanna River — their feeding grounds 
being principally along the marshy creeks and 
rivulets emptying into the river and on the 
edges of the grassy flats when the river is low 
Swans, wild geese, and canvas-back, red-necks, 
black, mallards, &c. are shot above Harrisburg. 

ANGLING WATERS IN THE 
EMPIRE STATE. 

The following; described waters covers 
to a large extent the fresh water fishing 
grounds in New York: 

In New York, there are many places that 
afl'ord good trout fishing. The Adirondacks 
— a vast wilderness, embracing over five thou- 
sand square miles — is visited annually by 
large numbers exclusively for trout. En- 
trances to the wilderness are via Prospect, 
Boonville, Lowville, and Carthage, on the 
Utica & Black River Railroad ; from Potsdam 
and Malone, on the Ogder.sburg A Lake Cham- 
plain Railroad; from Plattsburg ( ihence to 
Point of Rocks, Ausable Station), Westport, 
and Fort Edward, on the Delaware & Hudson 
Canal Railroad ; Crown Point, on the Ver- 
mont Central Railroad ; Little Falls and Her- 
kimer, on the New York Central Railroad ; 
and by boat from Clarksboro', at the terminus 
of the Potsdam branch of the Rome, Water- 
town & Ogdensburg Railroad. From Boon- 
ville a road leads to the Fulton chain of lakes, 
the centre of that part of the wilderness known 
as John BroA^n's Tract, and to Arnold's; 
thence by water conveyance to Racquette 
Lake, from which the whole northwestern 
part of the Adirondacks can be reached by 
continuous lakes and streams. By diverging 
from the usual paths of travel, this route will 
yield the sportsman fish and game in abun- 
dance. Arnold's alTords the best hunting and 
fishing in the entire region. From Lowville 
and Carthage, roads lead to Lake Francis 



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(about twenty miles) , thence the route is by 
land and water (twenty-three miles) to Beadh'a 
Lake, and thoiice (nine miles) to Rsicquette 
Lake. From Potsdam the route is via Colton 
(ten miles by stage), McKweu's (twelve miles 
by wagon) on llacquetto River, Haw's ( six 
miles, and a " short carry ''), Moosehead Still 
Water (six-and-one-half miles by road), and 
to foot of Racquette Lake (fifteen miles by 
water), thence to Grave's Lodge on Big Tup- 
per Lake. From Big Tupper all parts of the 
Wilderness can be reached by water. Al- 
though this is a " hard road to travel," it is 
one that will afford the visitor an abundance 
of trout and game. From Malone the route is 
by stage via Chazy and Chateaiigay lakes, and 
the east branch of St. Reg'S Lake to Meacham 
Pond, through Osgrod's Poud (with a short 
portage) to the lower St. Regis Lake and Paul 
Smith's. This in addition to the fine fishing 
afforded the whole distance — Meacham Pond 
is noted for its trout — is considered the short- 
est and best route to reach the interior of the 
Adirondacks. Martin's on the Lower Sara- 
nac, is accessible by wagon direct from Ma- 
lone, about fifty miles. From Ausable Sta- 
tion, conveyance is by stage to Paul Smith's 
and Martin's — distance about forty miles. The 
Westport route is the shortest to the Saranac 
Lakes. From Little Falls and Herkimer there 
is a good road for fifty miles leading to Round, 
Pleasant, and Piseco lakes. Canada and Met- 
calf creeks, Snag, Little Rock, Little Bea)-, 
Twin Rock, Morehouse, Pine, Joe's, North 
and South Reservoir hikes, and several other 
points, noted for their abundant irout, are ac- 
cessible from Trenton Falls. Schroon and 
Blue Mountain Lakes are reached by stage 
and boat from Riverside or North Creek. The 
WoodhuU chain of lakes, Chubb, White, and 
Bisby lakes, Moose River, and other points 
where trout sport and play, are reached from 
Alder Creek Station. On the route from 
Boonville to Racquette Lake, by a little di- 
vergence from the usual traveled paths. Little 
Moose Lake, the south branch of Moose Ri- 
ver, Big Moose, Moose, Fourth, and Cascade 
lakes, all splendid trout waters, can be taken 
in ; and for June fishing. Big Moose Lake is 
not excelled. Sunday Creek, Slough Brook 
and Alder Creek, besides several others, all 
good trouting waters, are wiiliin easy dis- 
tances of Number Four, and good fis^hing can 



be had up the Stillwater for over ten miles. 
Rainbow Lake, Round, Brick, Jones, Lilly 
Pad, Elbow, and Plumadore ponds, the north 
branch of the Saranac, and Nigger and Cold 
brooks, all noted for trout, in the vicinity of 
Chazy Lake, can be easily reached from 
Plattsburg, Rainbow Lake, Elbow, Round, 
and Buck ponds, and in addition Loon Lake, 
Mud, and Oregon ponds are also accessible via 
Malone. West Slurtevant Branch and 
Schroon River, Lake Andrew and Preston 
ponds, and Sandford and Henderson lakes, all 
noted waters, are reached from Crown Point. 
There is good trout fishing on Salmon River 
above the State Dam, easily reached from 
Malone. Cranberry Lake, and all the lakes, 
ponds, and streams in the vicinity, so well 
known for their abundant trout, are reached 
from DeKalb Junction. The Oswegatchie 
fishing grounds can be reaehad by stage from 
Governeur via Edwards to Fine, or from Can- 
ton via Cranberry Lake. The region covers a 
large tract, and aflords all the trout and other 
fishing, including game, one possible could de- 
sire. Long Pond, Paradox Lake, Schroon 
Lake, and one or two others, noted for big 
trout, bass, and pickerel, Bartlett's Regis, and 
Gull ponds, the homes of many trout, and 
Crane Pond, famous for pickerel, are reached 
by routes diverging from Ticonderoga. Ex- 
cellent trout fishing can be enjoyed at Lester 
Dam, Leach Eddy, and other points on Boreas 
River, accessible from Riverside by stage, 
sieamer, and wagon. Garoga, Pine, and 
Stink lakes, either of which afford good fish- 
ing, are reached from Fonda. Excellent fish- 
ing grounds are within easy distances of Cald- 
well. Lake Pleasant and the adjacent waters 
are accessible from Amsterdam. Fishing is 
good and game abundant in the vicinity. 
Messina Springs is a favorite point for baas, 
muscalonge, and whitefish. 

Up among the Catskill Mountains are many 
fine trout streams, most of which are easily 
accessible by the Ulster & Delaware Railroad 
from Kingston. The stream that lies nearest 
Kingston is the Beaverkill, running from the 
foot of the Overlook Mountain, in a westerly 
direction, a portion of the way through rich 
meadow land, and from thence into Dnvall's 
Hollow, down which it flows swiftly, empty- 
ing in the Shandaken or Esopus Creek at 
Mount Pleasant. There is some excellent 



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fisliing liere, to reach which the angler should 
take llie cars from this city to Mount Plea- 
sant, a distance of iwenty-four miles, then 
hire a liorse and wagon and drive up the 
stream seven or eight miles, and fish down, 
coming out near the hotel. If the fisherman 
prefers to fish up stream, then lie can have 
the horse and wagon follow along the road. 

About eight miles from Mouul Pleasant, to- 
ward the west, is another stream that comes 
tumbling down Snyder's Hollow. To reach 
this creek by the shortest route, a high moun- 
tain must be climbed, but when the stream is 
once gained the trout can be taken out almost 
as fast as the hook can be thrown in, though 
the fish arc not usually of a large size. 

At Shandaken, which is thirty-three miles 
from Kmgston, is tlie Deep Hollow stream, 
where trout abound, and where the angler 
will be treated to a view of the finest moun- 
tain scenery in the Calskills. Near the head 
of this lioilovv is a deep cut througli the range, 
barely the width of a carriage road, while the 
mountains run up each side from one thous- 
and five liundred to two thousand feet, so 
nearly perpeniiculur the top can be seen 
while standing at the foot. In the place the 
sun seldom shines, except in Winter, and ice 
cad be found a few feet from the cariiage-way 
during the hottest days of August. 

Three miles above Shandaken is the mouth 
of tlio Big Indian Hollow, from wliicli flows 
a deep and rapid stream. The trout in this 
creek are quite large, but extremely shy, so 
that it requires a most expert fisherman to 
take tliem. Near its source is a high moun- 
tain that crosses the hollow, making it a sort 
of cul de sac, wliile over the mountain is the 
west branch of the Neversink, one of the best 
trouting streams, and one of the roughest in 
this country. Men have been known to stand 
in one spot and catch fifty fish, some of them 
weighing over a pound. 

A few miles from this place, just around the 
base of the Peekomose, which, by tlie way, is 
the highest mountain of the Catskill range, 
b'ing about four thousand two hundred feet 
in heisht, is the stream called the " Head of 
the Roundout." This creek runs through a 
deep gorge in places over a hundred feet in 
depth, and often forming a canon by cutting 
through the solid rock. It is very laborious 
work to fish here, as the angler must neces- 



8 irly wade in the w.iti r, which in places is 
quite deep and very cold, even in July. On 
tiiis creek is a place called Sun Down, so call- 
ed, it is presume ', because the sun is always 
down so far as the settlers in this region is 
concerned. The scenery is of the wildest de- 
sciplion, and quite satisfactory even to the 
most poetically inclined. 

In the town of Hardenburg, which lies 
about twenty miles further north, is the Mill 
Brook stream running through a region so 
well guarded on the south by mountains that 
it is inaccessible from any part of Ulster coun- 
ty. To reach this the fisherman must go on 
the railroad to Dean's Corners, in Delaware 
county, forty -eight miles from this city, and 
from thence travel with a horse and wagon 
nineteen miles over a high mountain, when 
he will be able to camp on the banks of per- 
haps the best trout stream in the State. Mill 
Brook is forty miles in length, and trout can 
be caught anywhere in its waters. It is no 
rare occurrence for an amateur to catch from 
three hundred to four hundred in a single 
day. 

In this part of the country are a number of 
small lakes or ponds, being the sources of 
various streams that run in dififerent direc- 
tions. They are named Furlough Lake 
Balsam Lake, Pand's Pond, Tunis Lake, &c., 
and in some of them trout have been caught 
that weighed over four pounds. A few years 
ago a trout weighing five pounds was taken 
from one of these lakes, and exhibited for 
some lime iu Barnum's museum iu New York 
city. 

The expense of traveling to these streams 
and lakes from Kingston, and rernaining there 
a few days, would be between $50 and $60. 
The trip is a very pleasant one, and families 
from Newburg, Pouglikeepsie, and other 
places, camp out along these lakes often for a 
month during the Summer season. They live 
in tents or log huts on the shores, and take 
provisions enough with them to last until they 
return home. 

These lakes, streams, ponds, &c., in the vi- 
cinity of Westport, Essex county, abound 
with black bass, trout, pickerel, &c. la the 
neighborhood of Champlain, Clinton county, 
there is excellent salmon imd brook trout fish- 
ing. There are some fine trout streams near 
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ison county, six milas from Livonia, abounds 
in trout ; and in Mendon Ponds (same county) 
are abundant black and strawberry bass, pick- 
erel, Ac. Fish Creek, in Oneida county, is a 
fine trout stream. In Oswego county, trout, 
black bass, pike, pickerel, &c., are abundant 
in the waters around Minetto. Good bass fish- 
ing in the Oswego River. Seymour's and 
Covey's Bridge, the Meadows, North Branch, 
the Brick Yard, Petrie's and Stony Brook, on 
the Salmon River, near Redfield, are noted 
places for excellent trout fishing. Lake trout, 
speckled trout, black and rock bass, &c., are 
found in abundance in Lake George, Warren 
county. Lake Pharo, same county, and close 
by, is full of speckled trout. Lake Seneca, 
near Watkins, Schuyler couuty, affords good 
black bass and pickerel fishing, and tlie adja- 
cent streams fine trout fishing. Black bass, 
pickerel, &c., abound in Conesus L:<ke, Liv- 
ingston county. Mohawk nnd Sauquoit Ri- 
vers, West Canada Creek, Black River, and 
other waters around Trenton and Boonville- 
Oneida county, contain trout. Salmon trouf 
muscalonge, black bass, pike, pickerel, &c., 
are taken in great abundance in the neighbor- 
hood of Theresa, Dexter, Cape Vincent. Hen- 
derson, The Islands in Lake Ontario, The 
Thousand Islands, Alexandria Bay, and Clay- 
ton, Jefferson county. Lake Salubrica and 
Crooked Lake in Steuben county, abounds in 
salmon, trout, black; Otsego, and strawberry 
bass, pickerel, &c. Ow»sco Lake, in Cayuga 
county, is a good place for black bass, lake 
trout, pickerel, &c. In Cayuga Lake can be 
token speckled trout, Oawego, silver, straw- 
berry, and rock bass, Findlay's Lake, Chau- 
tauga counfy, contains salmon trout, black 
and Oswego bass, pike, &c. In Schenectady 
county, black bass are abundant at several 
points on the Mohawk River. Crystal Lake, 
near Dundafif, Susquehanna county, is noted 
for black bass and pickerel. Salmon trout are 
abundant in Skaneatles Lake, Onondaga coun- 
ty. Black and rock bass are taken in abun- 
dance in the Oneida River, near Brewerton, 
Onondaga county. Good bass and perch fish- 
ing can be had at Honeoye Lake, Oneida couu- 
ty. Canandaigua Lake, Oneida county, affords 
passable whitefish and trout fishing. Mirror 
Lake, near Florida, Orange couuty, is noted 
for its big pickerel. Greenwood Lake, Orange 
county, is widely known for its excellent 



black bass fishing. Round, Long, Mone- 
basha, and Hazard's Lake, near Monroe, 
Orange county, contain bass, pickerel, &c. 
Good black bass fishing can be had in the im- 
mediate vicinity of Tbrner's, Orange county. 
Three Sister Islands, Niagara Falls, Old 
French Landing, Burnt Ship Bay, Navy Is- 
land, Gill Creek, La Salle, and Niagara Vil- 
lage, seven miles below Lewiston, on the Ni- 
agara River, are favorite points for bass, pick- 
erel, &c. Good fishing can be had in the vi- 
cinity of Fort Ticonderoga, Essex county. 
Oneida Lake, Madison county, affords good 
black bass and pickerel fishing. 

DOWN m TENNESSEE. 

All the principal huntlnp^ aud fishiug 
grounds in Tennessee are easily accessi- 
ble from any of the points described as 
being on the lines of the several rail- 
roads herein mentioned: 

On the East Tennessse, Virginia & Georgia 
Railroad.— Tiiis line r\ms through a moun- 
tainous portion of the State, and affords easy 
access to some of the best hunting and fish- 
ing grounds in Tennessee. In the mountains 
are deer, an occasional bear and panther, wild 
j turkeys, iind rufTed grouse. In the cultivated 
fields aud along the hedge-rows, are an abun- 
dance of quail ; in the woods and thickets are 
plenty of rabbits and fox and gray squirrels, 
and wild fowl are numerous in season, in most 
of the lagoons and rivers. Woodcock are of- 
the flushed in the marshes and swamps. The 
fishing, as a general thing, does not amount 
to much. In some of the mountain streams 
in .Tohnson, Sullivan, Carter, Washington, 
Greene, Grainger, Hawkins, and a few other 
counties bordering on the Cumberland Range, 
are speckled t>out, but most of the waters 
contain only the usual Southern varieties of 
fish — black bass, pike, perch, cat-fish, &c. 
The best points along the route are easily 
reached by stopping at Union, Philadelphia, 
Jonesboro', Midway, Rogersville, Greenville, 
Russelville, Mossy Creek, New Market, 
Athens, Clevekmd, Ottewah, Strawberry 
Plains, Louden, and Tyner's, The country 
around Union, in Sullivan county, is high and 
healthy. The Chalybeate Springs and White 
j and Black Sulphur Springs are about four 
miles from the village. Accommodations can 




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be had at the Wyatt House at 75 cents a day 
or $15 a month. Philadelpliia, in Louden 
county, is situated in Sweet Water Valley, 
bounded on the east by Forked Creek Valley, 
and for health these valleys are unsurpassed. 
The Newmati House entertuius at 75 cents a 
day or $15 monlhly. Jouesboro', in Wash- 
ington county, has two hotels, charging $2 a 
day or $15 a week. Midway is in Grten 
county. Blue Springs, a noted resort, is two 
miles east, and Timber Ri ge — in the vicinity 
of which, it is said, tiood shooting can be en- 
joyed — six miles south of the town. The 
Heebler House will feed and lodge you at $1 
a day or $5.50 a week. Rogersville, in Haw- 
kins county, i.s a good quail district. Board 
at hotel $1.50 a day. Greenville, Greene 
county, has two hotels, charging $2 a day or 
$5 a week. The hotel at Russelville, Ham- 
blin county, charges 75 cents a day or $3 a 
week. Mossy Creek is pleasantly situated in 
Jefferson county, and although there are no 
especial points of interest near the place, yet 
some of the finest landscape views in the 
country can be seen from every hilltop. Board 
at Yoes' Hotel costs $1.50 a day or $6 a 
week. New Market, Jefferson county, is lo- 
cated among some very pleasing scenery. It 
has two hotels. Athens, in McMinn county, 
has three hotels — $1.50 a day and |3.50 a 
week. Cleveland, in Bradley county, has two 
hotels — $2 a day. Ottewah is situated with- 
in four miles of White Oak Mountain, in 
James county. Board at the hotel can be had 
at 75 cents a day or $10 a month. There is 
good hunting in the mountains. Strawberry 
Plains, in Jefferson county, derives its name 
from the abundance of wild strawberries that 
grow in the vicinity. These strawberry plains 
are noted feeding grounds for wild pigeons 
and other game birds. There is one hotel in 
the village, where accommodations can be had 
at $1.50 a day. Louden, in Louden county, 
is situated on the Tennessee River. It has 
one hotel, charging $1.50 a day or $25 a 
month. Some passable fishing can be had in 
the river. The hills and woods surrounding 
Tyner's, in Hamilton county, .nfford (rood 
sliooting at squirrels and ruffed grouse. There 
is one hotel at Tyner's. At Chattanooga, 
connections are made with the Nashville, 
Chattanooga & St. Louis, "Western & Atlantic, 
and Alabama & Chattanooga railroads. The 



city of Chattanooga is situated in a beautiful 
rolling valley, on the north bank of the Ten- 
nessee lliver, which sweeps ils front and 
makes its incorporate limits for over four miles, 
leaving a narrow neck of land, about two 
miles in width, in the rear (jf the town. Look- 
out Mountain is six miles distant. Besides 
the railroad ccmmunicalions, there are seven 
hundred miles of river navigation lor all boats 
eight montlis in the year; and for tho.-^e of 
light draft the entire season. When the im- 
provement of Muscle Shoals are completed, 
there will be direct water communicalioii with 
all the cities on the Mississippi lliver and its 
tributaries and the Gull' ol Mexico. In regard 
to climate and health, Chattanooga is unsur- 
passed by any city or locality, as may be at- 
tested by the hundreds of invalids who go 
there every season, and are invariably bene- 
fitted and often entirely cured. To the tourist 
or pleasure-seeker, it offers superior induce- 
ments. Kast Tennessee has been justly term- 
ed the Switzerland of America, and even in 
this favored section in the grand panorama of 
Nature's beauty, Chattanooga excels in her 
Lookout Mountain, Wuldeu's Ridge, Lulah 
Falls, Lake Seclusion, City of Rocks, the Tum- 
bling Shoals, the Pot and the Suck upon the 
Tennessee River. Of all these attractions to 
the tourist, old Lookout is the most famous. 
Its perpendicular lieight is over three thou- 
sand feet, and a spur from its bold t>iuff drives 
the Tennessee River northward for several 
miles into a narrow channel against the hills 
on its northern shore, while Walden's Ridge 
meets the returning curve, and casts its frown- 
ing shadow upon its retreating current. Deer, 
coons, and rabbits are found in the adjacent 
mountains, and good bass fishing can be had 
in the numerous creeks in the vicinity. 

On the Louisville, Nashville & Great South- 
ern Railroad. — This line passes through Hen- 
ry, Carrol, Gibson, Madison, Haywood, Tip- 
ton, Fayette, Shelby, Davidson, and Giles 
counties. The best hunting grounds can easi- 
ly be reached from Paris, Henry, Trezevant, 
Milan, McKenzie, Humboldt, Gadsden, 
Brownsville, Mason, Braden, Galloway, 
Wythe, Madison, and Prospect. In close 
proximity of most of these points are exten- 
sive oak, hickory, and walnut forests, and 
fox and gray squirrels abound. Quail and 
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numbers. Hatchie River, five miles, and Fork- 
ed Deer River, seven miles from Brownsville, 
afford good fisliiiig. Two miles from Mydison 
there is a noted watering place, with all kinds 
of water. Tlie Elkmount Springs, a favorite 
Summer resort, is ten miles from Prospect. 
Hotel accommodations can be had at all the 
points mentioned, charges $1 to $2 a day. 

On the Nashville, Chattanoogr & St. Louis 
RailroaA. — Tliis line in its course through llie 
State, traverses the counties of Hamilton, 
Marion, Franklin, Bedford, Rutherford, David- 
son, Cheatham, Dicksou, Humphreys, Carroll, 
and Weakley. The best shooting poinis are 
easily accessible by slopping at Wauliutohie, 
Wliitesides, Cowan, Bell Buckle, Smyrna, 
Bellevue, Kingston Springs, Burns, McKwen, 
Johnsonville, Huntingdon, and Gardner's. 
Hotel accommodations can be had at all these 
points, except Bell^ Buckle, Bellevue, and 
Gleason, but at these points boarding houses 
are to be found tliat will provide for your 
creature conforls. The charges rauge from 
$1 to $2 a day or $3 lo §8 a week. At near- 
ly all the points good qu lil and rabbit sho t- 
iug can be had. In the mountain ranges in 
the vicinity of Wanhttolue are quite a num- 
ber of deer, and the fields are well supplied 
with quail. Coosa Cove, two miles from 
Cowan, noted for its magnitude and beautiful 
stalactites, is a noted resort for tourists. The 
Bon Aqua Spring.*, noted for their splendid 
Sulphur water, art- tea miles southeast of 
Dickson Station. At Big Bottom, ten miles 
from Johnsonville. there is good quail and 
squirrel shooting. The oak and hickory for- 
ests around Huntingdon, abound with squir- 
rels, as do also the wnod.s in the vicinity of 
Dresden. 

On the Missisfsippi Ventral Railroad. — For 
ahootirg along this road stop at Hickory "Val- 
ley, Middleburg, Bolivar, Toon's Station, Me- 
don, or Harrisburg. There are hotels at Boli- 
var, and Toon's Station, but none at the other 
places; but private board can easily be ob- 
tained. Prices range from $1 to $2 a day or 
$4 to $12 H week. Bolivar is a tine village 
of some two thousand inhabitants, and has 
two first-class hotels at which an excellent 
bill of fare of fare is served guests at .$2 a 
liay. These houses of entertainment are more 
attractive for the genuine hospitality of their 
proprietors than inviting in external appear- 



ance. The Hatchie River, Spring Creek, and 
a number of other streams in close proximity 
of Bolivar, afford a good supply of the usual 
varieties of Southern fishes. Some wild tur- 
keys and deer are said to find a home in 
Hatchie Swamp —not far distant. 

On Ihe Mobile and Ohio Railroad. — This 
road runs throu;ih Obion, Gib.son, Madison, 
and McNairy counties, and good shooting can 
be had in the vicinity of either Union City, 
Rutherford, Dyersbnrg, Trenton, Humboldt, 
Jackson, Pinson, Henderson, or McNairy. 
There are hotels at all these places, charging 
from $1 to $2.50 a day— and $5 to $12 a 
■week. The game consists of quail, squirrels, 
and rabbits. At those points where the wal- 
nut and hickory forests predominates, there is 
good squirrel shooting, as, for instance, Ruth- 
erford, Trenton, Humbqldt, &c. There is pas- 
sable fishing in Deer Forked River, which 
flows past Dyersburg and Jackson. Ten 
miles from Humboldt is Gibson's Wells, a 
celebrated watering resort. Jackson is a good 
centre for quail shooting, and is noted for its 
healthy and salubrio\is climate. 

Reelfoot Lake, — In the northwestern corner 
of Tennessee, in Obion county, at an average 
distance of three miles from, and running 
south from pearly the Kentucky State line, 
parallel to the Mississippi River lies Reelfoot 
Lake, the production and result of the so-call- 
ed New Madrid earthquake in 1811. In ex- 
tent of water surface it may be safely esti- 
mated at fifty miles for length, and ten miles 
for greatest width, its contour irw'gular, hav- 
ing many points of timbered land projecting 
into it. Throughout its area of many square 
miles the sportsman will see and meet innu- 
merable stumps, logs, and cypress knees, — 
enough, at all events, in a day's rowing, to 
fully test his dexterity in managing his boat, 
and bring out all the moral attributes of a re- 
fined and moral education. In the nortl east- 
ern arm of the lake, surrounded and shut in 
by a thick setting of dead trees, there is a 
beautiful sheet of water about three miles 
long, from one to two hundred yards wide 
said to be of unbroken depth, called the Blue 
Basin. Some of the other notable localities 
are Grassy Point, Long Point, Horse, Starved, 
and Choctaw Islands. This lake is supplied 
with fresh water, nearly every Spring, from 
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that branches from the river a little below 
Hickman, Kentucky, debouching near Grassy 
Point. When the river rises very high, the 
lake and surrounding bottom are overflowed ; 
some seasons the water reaching as high as 
fifteen feet above the level of the lake, as may 
be verified by the water-marks left on the 
trees ; at such times it is restocked with fish 
of every variety found in the Mississippi, to 
an unknown extent, as the supply seems 
never to diminish. Reelloot Creek, running 
from the east, a stream of considerable size, 
also empties into it. The outlet of the lake 
is through the Obion River into the Mississip- 
pi. On this curious and weird lake, from Oc- 
tober to their return northward in the Spring, 
geese and ducks, of all varieties, abound ; then, 
too, bass fishing is at its best, the water be- 
ing cold enough then to put- all the requisite 
snap and vim in their movements, to suit the 
most fastidious Waltonian. 

On the Tennessee River. — Excepting Eeelfoot 
Lake, perhaps the best hunting and fishing 
grounds in the State are found on and along 
the Tennessee River. There are many places 
plong the river, easily accessible by steam- 
boat, where excellent turkey, quail, duck, and 
goose shooting can be had, and where the 
black bass, catfish, drum, buffalo, perch, 
trout, bream, and pike afford most excellent 
sport. As good places as any to stop at is 
Hamburg, Pittsburg, Landing, Savannah, &c. 



COAST REGION OF SOUTH 
CAROLINA. 

The best hnntin<>; and fishing jiToiiu'-ls 
in South Carolina is in wliat is called 
the Coast Region. Game may not be as 
plentiful as in sonic part of Florida, but 
the climate is deliglitful, and the section 
an inviting one. 

A little investigation will show that the 
coast region of South Carolina possesses one 
great advantage over Florida whether for 
sporting or agricultural operations. Willi but 
liitle difference in climate, and that difierence 
a positive benefit many visitors think. With 
abundant game, and in great variety, the 
sportsman, visitor, or settler still maintains 
sure and easy communication with family and 
friends at home. Steam and electricity are 



both at his service. Moreover, in comparison 
with the most points further South, his desti- 
nation is quickly reached and no time wasted 
en roule, as is always the case where change 
of cars, steamer, or stage is called for. In 
chess the best judge of position wins the day, 
and the time is not far distant when the unri- 
vnlled position of South Carolina, and especial- 
ly of the noble harbor of Port Roval, will 
challenge and attract the attention of the world 
to its manifold merits. It is safe to say that 
all the common varieties of ducks abound on 
all the South Carolina rivers where rice is cul- 
tivated. Mallards, black ducks, widgeon, pin- 
I tails, gadwalls, teal, and shoveleis, ring-neckp, 
' greater and lesser scaups, bufielheads, ruddies, 
i and mergansers. All the foregoing will be 
I found abundant. The Chesapeake, or Curri- 
j tuck habitue, will miss the accustomed canvas- 
back, red-head, and Canada goose. The latter 
is replaced in some localities by the white- 
fronted goose. To get at this kind of game 
; the gunner must make his headquaters at the 
nearest house he can find to his field of opera- 
tions, with a full outfit of boat, decoys, kc. 
January and February arc the best months, as 
they are the coldest and roughest months of 
the year. If a party of gentlemen would like 
to visit these parts and test the shooting of 
the Bull River and Combahee region, or of any 
other region in the vicinity, '• Rusticus," writ- 
ing from Port Royal, says: " 1 will assist them 
so fiir as may be in my power, with informa- 
tion, as also with boats, decoys, &e., of which 
I have a supply, but quite rusty withal, for 
want of use. Should other varieties of game 
be desired, partridges are at present abundant 
on my premises, not having been shot at the 
whole season. Deer can be had on the Hunt- 
ing Islands, about twelve miles distant. An 
hour's ride by rail will take them to a locality 
where partridges qre very numerous ; also 
snipe and some woodcock, but, if I mistake 
not, these latter migrate about the end of Feb- 
ruary. The same locality will also yield wild 
turkeys to the persevering sportsman, and 
ducks in variety. I have a boat on tlie spot, 
or at least had one there last Winter. I have 
forgotten to enumerate rail among our game, 
which are very numerous in the salt marshes, 
and can easily be bagged twice a month when 
the Spring tides occur. Their flight being slow 
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to practice upon. T!ie families of waders are 
always well represented, especially in April 
and May, in which months I often have excel- 
lent shooting over decoys at such birds as 
j;ick curlew, black-breast plover, godwils, wil- 
its, itc, and this just at my very doors." ■ 

IN GEOllGJA. 

By leaving the cars at any of the sta- 
tions of the several lines of travel herein, 
mentioned, the sportsman will be in easy 
access of some of the best hunting sec- 
tions in the State. 

On the Atlantic d: Gulf Railroad.— Th\s, line 
traverses the coutiiies of Chatham, Bryan, 
Liberty, Wayne, Pierce. Ware, Clinch, Brooks, 
Lowndes, Thomas, and Decatur. In the vi- 
cinity of Way's Station, in Bryan cotinty, 
there is a great variety of game, consis-ling 
of deer, bears, wild turkeys, quail, woodcock, 
snipe, coons, opossums, otters, and minks. 
Bryan county is in the eastern part of tlie 
State, bordering on the Ailaniic Ocean. The 
Ogeeche Biver touches its northeastern boun- 
dary, and the Connouchee Eiver flows throufjh 
it from east to west. The surface ot the 
country is generally level, except on the banks 
of the river, where it is undulating, and a 
large portion of the land is coveied hy exten- 
sive pine forests, and deer are very plentiful. 
Although Way's Station boasts a population 
of nearly fifteen hundred inhabitants, it is 
minus of hotel accommodations, and parties 
must depend on the hospitality of the plant- 
ers, or else go prepared to camp. For Liberty 
county, make headquarters at Fleming, Rice- 
boro' (the head of navigation on North New- 
port Eiver), ten miles fiom iJcIntcsh, Wal- 
thourville, or Johnson Station. The game is 
of the same general character as at Way's. 
Tliere is a good hotel at Fleming, where ac- 
commodations can be had at $2 a day, $8 a 
week, or $14 a month. The village of Wal- 
tliourville is t,hree miles 'rom the station, and 
is a great resort for invalids. The neighbor- 
hood abounds with deer and partridges. Ac- 
commodations can be had at boarding-houses 
at $L50 a day. Reedsville and Darien, easily 
accessible by private conveyance, are excel- 
lent points for deer shooting. No Lotelp, but 
boarding-houses will feed you at from fifty 
cents a moal to $6 a week. For operations 



in Wayne county, stop at Doctortown, Jessup, 
or Screven. There is as good sport to be 
had in the vicinity of these points as at any 
before mentioned. At Jessup iire two hotels, 
charging $5 to $G a week. In tl.e vicinity 
of Patterson and Blackshear, in Pierce coun- 
ty, are extensive pine forests, affording good 
covers for deer and other game. Tiieie is 
one liotel in Blackshear. and the climate is 
remarkably heallliy. Tebeauville, Glenmore, 
and Argyle, in Ware county, are good points 
to stop at. At Tebeauville, accommodations 
can be had at $2 a day or $8 a week, but the 
other two are wood .stations, and accommo- 
dations of any kind are not to be had ; but if 
you are after game, and can' camp out, these 
are the places to find deer, b( ar*, and wild 
turkeys, as the great Okafonokee Swamp is 
easilj' accessible, and is one of the best game 
sections in the State. Guides can be had at 
Tebeauville at $1.50 a day. The Okafonokee 
Swamp is also easily reached from Homers- 
ville, Lawton, and Stockton, in Clinch county. 
There are two hotels at Homersville, one at 
Lawton ($2 a day), and private board can be 
had at Stockton at $1 a day. Lawton is the 
junction of llie Florida brancli. Naylor, Val- 
dosta, and Ousley, in Lowndes county, are 
good stopping places. There are two hotels 
at Valdosta, and in the neighborhood are 
many natiual curiosities. One of the small 
rivers enters a cave and disappears. The 
Ocean Pond and Long Pond afford the best 
fresli- water fishing of any body of water in 
Georgia. At Onsley there is one hotel, where 
board can be had at $12.50 a month. The 
Wilhlacoochee River is about one mile from 
the station, and abounds in fish of various 
kinds, and also otter. The woods abound in 
deer, wild tuikeys, foxes, squirrels, and a va- 
riety of fine birds; quail are very abundant. 
Boston Springs — consisting of two springs, 
one pure sulphur and one magnesia (one a 
large bathing spring) — are one mile from 
Ousley. The Blue Spring is about two hun- 
dred yards from the sulphur spring. These 
springs are great resorts for invalids and 
pleasure-seekers, and some wonderful cures 
are said to have been effected by the use of 
the waters. The bathing and Blue Springs 
are magnesia. Quitman's and Dixie's, in 
Brooks county, are good game centres. There 
are four hotels at Quitman's and one at Dix- 



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ie's; board $1.50 a day. In the vicinity of 
Dixie's is Dry Lake, a large and beaulilul 
sheet of water, and a siiik-lude into wliicli llio 
rivers empty, and slinw tio outlet. The best 
stations to Slop at, lo hunt and fi^h in Tlionias 
county, are Boston. Thoni;i.«ville, and Cairo, 
giving Thomasville the preference as lar as 
liottl accommodations are concerned. The 
town is on llie higlitst land between Savan- 
nah and the Flint River, its location is dry 
and healihy, and is a favorite resort for inva- 
lids. At Thomasville, connection is made 
with the Albany branch, by which Okloknee, 
Pelham, and Camilla can be reached. Eigiil 
miles from Camilla are several laKes and 
ponds full of fish. Three miles from Pelham 
is somewhat of a cuiiosilf , called " Blowing 
Cave." It is a large limesink with an aper- 
ture in the side, through which a strong cur- 
rent of air is constantly passing, which seems 
to be influenced by the tides — a portion of 
the day the current is inward, and then re- 
verses and blows outward. There is one 
hotel at Boston ($2 a day or $16 a month), 
and boarding-lrouses at Cairo ($1 a day or .$12 
a month). At either place, deer, wild tur- 
keys, and quail are plentifid, and bears and 
wild-cats are not a rarity. Whigham, Cli- 
max, and Bainbiidge, in Decatur county, are 
excellent localities for deer, wild turkeys, 
quail, ducks, English, woodcock, Ac. Whig- 
ham and Climax are small way stations, des- 
titute of any facilities in the shape of accom- 
modations, but are easy of access to good 
• shooting. Baiubridge is the termiuns of the 
line, and the head of navigation on Flint 
River. Steamboats muke semi-weekly trips 
to Columbus, Georgia, on the Chattahooche, 
and to Afalachicola, Florida, on the Gulf of 
Mexico. Moose Pond, Lake Douglas, Flint 
River, and neighboring lakes and streams, 
abound with fish. Camping out is advisable. 
Guides can be had for fifiy cents a day. The 
hotels (two) at Bainbridge charge $2 a day, 
$10 a week, or $25 a month. 

On the ilacon iSt Brunswick Railroad.— Along 
the Macon & Brunswick road an abundance of 
game can be found, consisting of deer, bears, 
wild turkeys, coons, opossoraa, woodcock, 
quail, snipe, and wild fowl. Good shooting 
points can easily be reached by stopping at 
Ilawkinsville, Dubois, Eastman, McRae, 
Town's, Graham, Baxley, Surrency or Satilla. 



Hotel accommodations can be had at Ilaw- 
kinsville, Eastman, McRae, and Town's, and 
the other stations are only boarding-houses. 
Most of the towns along the line contain only 
from forty to one hundred inhabitMnls ; at 
consequently the g;)mo has not been much 
hunted. Gum Swamp, and Sugar Creek, near 
McRae, in Telfair county, are noted game and 
fish localities, and abound in deer, bears, 
coons, opossums, wild turkeys, rabbits, squir- 
rels, &c., and many varieties of fish. The 
Great Satilla River, about two miles from 
Satilla, in "Wayne county, is noted as being 
the best trout-fishing place in the South. The 
surface of the country around Satilla is level, 
abounding in extensive pine forests, in which 
are found a goodly number of deer, bears, 
wild turkeys, and other game. At Bruns- 
wick, the terminus of the line, there is splen- 
did salt-water fishing in the sounds and among 
the coast islands. The pine forests and 
swawps in the vicinity abound in game — 
bears, deer, wild turkeys, woodcock, quail, 
snipe, wild fowl, &c. Brunswick is also 
reached by Brunswick & Albany Railroad, 
and by boats from Savannah and Florida 
ports. 

On the Central Railroad of Georrjia. — There 
is good hunting along the route of this line. 
The best points are Oliver (private board, $1 
a day, $6 a week), Ogeechee (one hotel, $1 a 
day, $5 a week), and Millen, in Screven 
county; Augusta, in Richmond county; Ten- 
ville (one hotel) and Oconee, in Washington 
county; Tomsboro' (one hotel, $1.50 a day), 
in Wilkinson county; and Powersville, in 
Houston county. For hotel accommodations, 
antj as a place to " strike out " from, perhaps 
Augusta is the best place to stop at on the 
line, as it is the junction of the Augusta & 
Savannah and Georgia & South Carolina rail- 
roads, and renders the points along those 
roads easy of access. There are four hotels, 
ranging in price from $1.50 to $3 a day. 
There is good quail and hare shooting in the 
immediate vicinity of Richmond, and in the 
bottom land are some deer. At the Rapids, 
about eight miles distant, some excellent 
black bass and perch fishing can be had. 
Oconee and Tomsboro' are undoubtedly the 
best places for sport. The Oconee Swamp, 
extending along the Oconee River for some 
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deer, bears, wild turkeys, coons, opossiitns, 
:uid other game, and all kinds of wild fowl. 
Tomsboro' is eight miles from Ocouee, and 
embraces, to a large extent, the game region 
of Oconeo Swamp. 

On the Western & Atlantic Railroad.— Some 
excellent shooting can be had along the line 
uf the Western & Ailanlic. Leave llie cars 
at eitiier Graysville, Catoosa county; Tun- 
nel Hill, Whitfield county; Resaca, Gordon 
county ; Adairsville, Kingston, or Cariers- 
ville, Bartow county ; Acworth, Big Shauiy, 
or Smyrna. Cobb county. Most of these points 
are described under the head of " The Hill 
Country." The Catoosa Springs, six miles 
from Graysville, is a noted Summer resort. 
At Tunnel Hill, there is a tunnel through the 
hill fourteen hundred and seventy-seven feet 
in length. The Falls of Etowaii, equal in 
power to the falls at Lowell, Massachusetts, 
are near Cartersville, as are mounds of l<'to- 
wah and Old Moat, wliere images of heathen 
gods were found. Cartersvile is surrounded 
by some beautiful scetiery, fine elevations, is 
a delightful climate, and remarkably healthy. 

The Hill Country. — "What is known the as 
Hill Couiilry is composed of the coimiies of 
Floyd, Chattooga, Gilmer, Rabun, Lumpkin, 
"Walker, Union, Dade, Towns, White, Bartow, 
Hall, Gordon, Murray, Habersham, and Pick- 
ens, and lie in the north and northwestern 
portion of the State — embracing a tract of the 
wildest and rougliest country imaginable — 
some one hundred and thirty miles long by 
thirty-five in width, affording some magnifi- 
cent scenery and the very best of hunting. 
The whole region abounds with game, eoii- 
sialing of deer, bears, turl<ej-s, quail, squirrels, 
rabbits, and rufled grouse. The fishing is not 
of much account; catfish and suckers, and 
some other kinds, abound iu most of the 
streams, and where the water is clear and 
cold the chub and bream are foimd, and m 
most of the lakes and millponds are black 
bass, and they are also taken in most of the 
rivers where the obstructions will allow^ tnora 
to ascend. Warwomon's Criek, in Rabun coun- 
ty, is tlie only stream east of the Blue Ridge 
that contains speckled trout, but they are 
found in nearly every mountain stream on the 
west of the ridge. The country is decidedly 
rough, and hotels few and far between ; 
though most of the villages have one or two 



houses of " entertainment for man and beast," 
ranging in price from about $1 to $1.50 a 'day, 
or from $.5 to $6 a week ; but the people ara 
generally hospitable, and will " take tlie 
stranger m " and do for him in their homely 
way, spreading before iiim the best the house 
afifords, though tlie fare will not be up to the 
standard of Delmonico's. Those, however, 
who cannot concoct tlieir own coffee, and 
sleep on hemlock boughs, with their Aet to 
the camp-fire and the blue canopy of heaven 
for a counterpane, had better not visit this 
section ; but to those who delight in camp- 
life, and are fond of wild and magnificent 
scenery, it will well repay them to pitch their 
tents in this mountainotis region. After once 
striking the initial point, it is almost impossi- 
ble to be led aslniy. The whole section is a 
land of hunters — many of the residents liiint 
for a living ; and will act as guides when oc- 
casion oCTers, They know the whole country 
like a book, and will willingly guide the 
stranger to the best points. Tiiey can be 
found in every village. The section is reached 
by the Western & Atlantic Railroad, running 
from Chickamauga, Tennessee, to Atlanta, 
Georgia. The best points to leave the cars 
are Resaca (one hotel), Calhoun (one hotel), 
and McDaniels, in Gordon county ; Hall's 
Station, Kingston, Cartersville (one hotel), 
.md Stegalls, in Bartow county ; for points in 
Floyd and Chattooga counties, take the Sel- 
ma, Rome & Daltou cars to either Rome (two 
hotels — $3 a day), Plaiuville (one hotel — $3 
a day), or Sugar Valley, where there is some 
beautiful scenery; andSkelly's. ForDadecoun- 
ty, take Alabama & Chattanoojia Railroad, 
and leave cars at either Morgansville (no ho- 
tel) or Trenton (one hotel— $1 a day). This 
village is situated in a beautiful valley, called 
Lookout, named from the creek that runs its 
entire length. Lookout Mountain on one side 
is twelve hundred feet above the level of the 
creek ; Sand Mountain on the other is eight 
hundred feet. Morganton, in Fannin county, 
and Lafayette, in Walker county — both good 
centres to operate from — are accessible by 
carriage from Dallon. For Gilmer county, 
take Western & Atlantic Railroad to Tilton, 
ninety miles from Chattanooga, thence private: 
conveyance to Kllijay. The Tullah Falls, ia 
Habersham county, are reached by the Ai- 
lantic & Uichmond Air. Line ; and taking the 



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same line to Gainesville, you will have a good 
base for operations in Hall county. Gaines- 
ville liHS three hotels, and is a lashionable 
Summer resort. For Murray counly, lake the 
Western A Atlantic Railroan to Dalton, ihence 
private conveyance to Spring Place. The best 
points in Pickens county are reached by sa;iie 
route to Resaca (one hotel). Plainville — a 
H-ood point to strike out from — in Union coun- 
ty: Cleveland — ^'.-here headquarters should be 
made fur operations in White couiuy ; and 
Dahlouega — a good point for operations in 
Lumpkin county — are accessible by team from 
Gainesville. 

On the Georgia Railroad. — The stations to 
stop at on tills line are Berzelia, Tlmrason, 
Barnett, Rutledge, Conyers, Covington, Li- 
thonia, Stone Mountain, and Decatur. Tliev 
are in Columbia. McDuffie, Warren, Morgan, 
Newton, Rockdale, and De Kalb counties, 
respectively, and the very best of t-iuail and 
rabbit sho )ting can be had at nearly all of 
them. At most of them an abundance of 
foxes can be found, and foxchasing is one of 
the favorite pastimes of the country. Hotel 
accommodations can be found at Berzalia, 
Rutledge, Covington, Conyers, Stone Mount- 
ain, and Decatur, at rates varying from $1 to 
$2.50 a day, or $5 to SIO a week. Flat 
Shoals, on South River, seven miles from Li- 
thonia, is noted for its black bass fishing and 
duck shooting. At Stone Mountain, there is a 
large granite mountain, fourteen liimdred 
feet high and from si.x to seven miles in cir- 
cumference, mostly bald or clear of grass or 
any kind of vegetation. There are several 
mineral springs around the mo\mfain that are 
great resorts. At Lexington Depot, &uiin-c- 
tion is made with the Athens branch, along 
the line of which are an abundance of deer, 
wild turkeys, squirrels, coons, quail, and other 
game. 

On the Atlanta & West Point Railroad.— The 
best points on tliis road are F,asi Point. Fair- 
burn, Palmetto, Newnan, Grantville. Hogans- 
ville, La Grange, and West Point. At East 
Point, accommodations can be had of Mrs. 
Ware; $1.50 a day or $5 a week. Fine's 
Mill is a fine place for fishing. There are 
hotels at all the rest of the stations, charging 
from SI to ^2.50 a day or $5 to $12 a week 
La Grange is a delightful Summer resort, 
and very healthy. It is noted throughout the 



State for its beautiful residences and gar- 
dens. 

Savannah. — There are good shooting and 
fishing to be had all around Savannah. A 
short distance from the city on the Ogeechee 
road, there is fine quail shooting, all the in- 
lets and bays afford an abundance of wild 
fowl, and the very best of fishing can be had 
anywhere. Call on Mr. Lovell, hardware 
merchant, and he will put you on the right 
track. 

I^' ALABAMA. 

There is as good shooting to be had in 
Alabama as any of the Southern States, 
and points here mentioned are good cen- 
tres to operate from. 

On the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad. — 
Valley Head, situated at the head of Little 
and Big AVills Valley, is in De Kalb coimty ; 
there is no hotel, but the villagers will accom- 
modate stranciers at $1 a day, or $4 a week. 
De Kalb county is made up of mountains, 
valleys, and plains, and is noted for its rc- 
j mantic scener}'. It is the highest pomt be- 
tween Mcriden, Mississippi, and Chattanooga, 
and the dividing point of waters which run 
from ti)ere to the Coosa and Tennessee rivers. 
The falls of " Little River" on Lookout Moun- 
tains, and several other attractive points along 
the brow of the mountain are near this sta- 
tion. The Sulphur Springs in Georgia and 
Alabama are ten and twelve miles distant. 
Tiie game of De Kalb county consists of deer, 
bears, wild turkeys, squirrels, and qtiail. 
Black bass, chub, and bream aS'ord good sport 
in the way of angling. Brandon Station, Por- 
terville, and Collinsville are pleasant villages, 
and easy of access to good hunting and fish- 
ing grounds. Thej^ are all unsurpassed for 
good climate. Attalla, in Etowah county, is 
in the centre of excellent shooting and fish- 
ing, and some pleasing scenery. Two and a 
half miles from the village is Black Creek 
Falls, in Southern Terminus of Lookout Moun- 
tain. Yoti can board at either one of the two 
hotels at $2.50 a day. Springville is in St. 
Clair county, and in the neighborhood of ex- 
cellent sporting grounds. A large number of 
springs flow out of a bluff in the very centre 
of the town. Situated near are the Blue Grass 
Springs. The Herring House is the principal 



Huxrnro axd fiseixg grounds and pleasure resorts. 237 



Loiel. Trussville Depot, Birmingham, and 
Jonesboro', are in Jefferson county, and are 
good game centres. Tlie countj is mountain- 
ous, and contains a good supply of deer aiid 
bears, while the fields and swamps are well 
filled with quail and woodcock. Oue hotel al 
Trussville. $2 a dav: and at Birminghim, four. 
Jonesboro' lies in an un=eulcd portion of 
Jones' Talley, west one mile from Salem 
Springs. East of Jonesboro' and bounding 
Jones' Taller runs the famous Iron Mountain. 
In the mountains are deer, bears, turkeys, 
squirrels, rabbits, &c. and in the cultivated 
fiflds and swamps are quail and woodcock. 
East of Jonesboro' is Shades Creek. Valley 
Creek runs through Jones' Valley ; it is about 
one hundred feet in width, and one of tJie 
prettiest in the State. It is fed by spr.ngs, 
and always has an abundant supply of water. 
The most remarkable is Salem Sptings, si'u- 
ated at the terminus of the valley, overlook- 
ing it for miles. These waters differ from 
others, be^ng sparkling and clear, carbonic gas 
escaping iu large quantities, so as to give the 
main spring the appearance of constant effer- 
vescence. Tiiej' are resorted to annually by 
invalids, who camp around them. It will be 
hard to find a place better suited for sports- 
men. It has one good hotel. For hunting in 
Sumter county, stop at Cuba. It has good 
hotel accommodations at §1.50 a day. 

On the Memphis & Charleston Railroad. — 
This line runs through Colbert, Lawrence, 
Morgan, Madison. Jackson, and Lauderdale 
counties. Good shooting points are accessi- 
ble from Leigh ton. in Colbert county (one 
hotel— $1.50 a day : $6 a week) ; Town Creek [ 
(one hotel — $1 50 a day : $8 a week), or I 
Courtland (one hotel — $2.50 a day: $U a ' 
week): Hill t-boro' (one hotel — $1 a day; $5 
a week) : or Wheeler (one hotel — $4 a week ; , 
$1.3 a month), in Lawrence county; Trinity 
(no hotel), in Morgan county : Brownsboro' 
(co hotel), in Madison county ; Larkinsville 
(no hotel): Scottsboro' (two hotels— $1.50 a 
a day : $5 a week) : Belle'"oute ; Stevenson 
Station (one liotel— $2.25 a day : $15 a week), 
in Jackson county: or Florence Station (one 
hotel — $15 to $40 a month). In the vicinity | 
of Courtland is good deer, turkey, quail, and ' 
duck shooting. The Mountain House, eight 
miles distant from Courtland, is a very pleas- 
ant Summer resort Lawrence county is in 



a beautiful valley, having a level surface. It 
is nine miles in width, with the Tennessee 
River on the north, and a skirt of mountains 
on the south. The Mussel Shoals on Tennes- 
see River are seven miles from Wheeler. 
Lauderdale county, perhaps, furnishes tiie 
best sport of any county iu the State. It is 
situated in il:e most noted game region of 
Northern -Abibama. and splendid shooting can 
be liad almost anywhere. FIvery field, it may 
be said, contains a covey of quail, and the 
woods aie well supplied with d«-er, wild tur- 
keys, and squirrels ; all the ponds and streams 
afford good wild-fowl shooting. The Mussel 
Sl.oals on the Tennessee River are a noted 
feeding- ground for wild geese, and every Win- 
ter they are there by thous inds. The Mussel 
Shoals are some five or six miles wide, and 
ere fi'led with f>mill islands, covered witti 
driftwood, in which the gunners conceal tl. em- 
selves, and sloot the geese as tliey flv over. 
The gf-ese. from one cause or Bnolher, are 
kepi constantly on the wing, and just before 
nightfall nfford rare sport. The same remarks 
apply to the ducks, except that the ducks are 
found everywhere, all through the Winter. 
Deer and turkeys are found in every direc- 
tion. Shoal Creek affords splendid fishing, 
and is noted for black bass of large size. The 
Shoals are easily reached from Florence, South 
Florence, or Decatur, and are elsewhere de- 
scribed. They are also easily accessible from 
Athens, on the Louisville. Nashville t Great 
Southern Railroad. At either of these points 
good hotels can be had at from $1 to $3 a 
day. 

On the Montgomery dc Evfaula Railroad. — 
This road extends from Montgomery to Eu- 
faula. a distance of eighty miles, and runs 
through the extensive pine forests of Mont- 
gomery, Bullock, and Barbour counties, which 
are full of deer, bears, and wild turkeys. The 
best points are Greenwood, six miles, and 
Buckshot, twelve miles, from Mattl.ew's Sta- 
tion. Mitchell's Station, Union Spring, Pine 
Grove, five miles: and Mount Andrew, seven 
miles, from Midway Station, Spring Hill, and 
Butesville. At any of these points, one c-an 
get all the sliooiing he wants. The country 
is but sparsely settled, and consequently game 
has increased and multiplied till the fields fair- 
ly teem with quail and the woods with deer, 
l>ear8, turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, cocne, and 



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opossums. The Alabama, Tallapoosa, and 
Coosa rivers flow through Montgomery coun- 
ty, a section full of every variety of game. The 
officers of the steaniboals wliich ply on each 
of the rivers, as a general thing, are well in- 
formed as to the best points, and will aflbrd 
all possible information ; and tiie same may be 
said of the train conductors. Hotel accom- 
modations can be had at Union Springs, Mont- 
gomery, and Eufaula, but at the other points, 
one must depend on the hospitality of the vil- 
lagers. The climate is mild ai>d pleasant. In 
tije rivers are all the difl'ereni variet-es of tisii 
usually found in the Southeru inland water.i. 
As a sporting centre, Montgomery, is without 
doubt, the best in the Stale, its excellent 
railroad and steamboat communications ren- 
dering all the best game districts easy of 
access. 

On the Mobile <fe Guard Railroad. — This 
road runs from Columbus (Georgia) to Troy, a 
distance of eighty-four miles, traversing Rus- 
sell, Bullock, and Pike counties, conneciing at 
Union Springs witli the Montgomery & Eu- 
faula Railroad. Good shooting can be had all 
along the road. In Pike county are extensive 
forests, tilled with deer, bears, wild turkeys, 
squirrels, &c. Union Springs is a good centre 
of operations. It is one of the most beautiful 
villages in East Alabama, situated on an ele- 
vated ridge, extending east and west for about 
thirty miles, known as Chunnenugge Ridge. 
It has two good hotels; charges fl.50 per 
day, or $7 and $8 a week. Bilula, Glenville, 
and Sand Point, two-and-a-half, five, and 
twelve miles from Seale Station ; Warrior's 
Stand, Enon, &c., twelve to fifteen miles from 
Hurtville; Creek Stand, tlve miles from Guer- 
ryton ; China Grove, ten miles, and Buckhorn, 
eleven miles from Linwood. are good points 
for quail, rabbits, squirrels, deer, bears, and 
turkeys. No hotel accommodations except 
at Searle Station and Union Springs. 

Selma, Rome <fc Dalton Railroad. — This road 
extends from Selma to Dalton. Georgia, two 
hundred and sixty-two miles, p;^ssing through 
Dallas, Baker, Bibb, Shelby, Talladega, Cal- 
houn, and Cherokee counties. The best points 
to leave the cars are at Plantersville (no hotel), 
Maplesville (one hotel, board $1.50 per day ; 
$6 a week), Moutevallo (two hotels, ,$1.50 a 
day), Calera (one hotel), Talladega (one hotel 
$2.50 a day), Patona (one hotel, SI. 50) and 



Ladiga (one hotel, $1.50 a day). At any of 
these places good sport can be had. Quail are 
plenty everywhere, and the timberland is well 
supplied with deer, bears, turkeys, squirrels, 
and rabbits. The hotel accommodations are 
not first-clas.s, but this can hardly be expect- 
ed in a country where the inhabitants of most 
of the villages are outnumbered by many of 
I the New York tenement houses. Cherokee 
county is partly covered with pine forests, af- 
fording good cover for deer, bears, wild tur- 
key, and squirrels. 

Mobile & Montgomery Railroad. — Leto- 
hatchie Station in Lowndes county, is a rich 
farming section, twenty-one miles south of 
Montgomery. Lowndes county is made v.p of 
pine and hammocks, and abounds in the va- 
rieties of game indigenious to such a country. 
Evergreen, in Conecuh county, is a good stop" 
pitg point. The sportsman will find deer, 
turkeys, quail, squirrels, rabbits, and wild 
fowl, though not abundant, yet in satisfactory 
numbers. A large portion of Escambia coun- 
ty is stiil unsettled, and abounds in deer, 
bears, wild turkeys, quail, and squirrels. In 
this county there are many streams that afford 
excellent fishing. The sportsman can drop 
off at either Summit, Garland, Sparta, Pollard, 
or, in fact, at almost any station, and lind 
game in fair quantities. 

On the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis 
Railroad. — This line runs through Jackson 
county, and good hunting and fishing can be 
had in the neighborhood of Stevenson, where 
there is one hotel ; board $3 a day. The couuty 
is well watered, and the numerous creeks 
and streams afford good angling for black 
bass, drum, wall-eyed pike, red-horse, catfish, 
and perch. "Woods and mountains are the 
abiding-places of deer, turkeys, and squirrels; 
quail are found in large numbers in the cul- 
tivated fields, and there is good wild-fowl 
shooting on the creeks and ponds. Excellent 
shooting and fishing points can be reached by 
taking any of the steamboats on the Tennes- 
see River. 

^ On the Western Alabama Railroad. — Leave 
the cars at Cusseta, Franklin, or Cowles, and 
you will find all the shooting you want. There 
are no hotels, at any of the points. The land 
is high and rolling, and the climate mild and 
salubrious. The road runs from Columbus 
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ery with the seveml roads diverging there- 
from, and passes through Lee, Chambers, 
Henry, Macon, and Montgomery counties. 

On the Tombighee and Alabama Rivers — 
Stop at any of tiie towns on tlie Tombigbee 
and Alabama rivers, go a lew miles inland, 
and you will find plenly of deer, bears, wild- 
cats, raccoons, opossums, wild turkeys, ducks, 
geese, snipe, woodcock, rabbits, and squirrels, 
and can take from the rivers and their trib- 
utaries all the white and channel cat and buf- 
falo lish you want. For sport in Washinaton 
county, lake the Tombigbee River steamboat 
to St. Stephens, or drop cff the cars at any 
of the stations on the Mobile & Ohio Rail- 
road, and strike inland a few miles. Game 
is plenty, and you can't well miss finding it, 
comprising all the varieties mentioned in 
Choctaw and Marengo counties. Deer, tur- 
key's, and quail can be had in good numbers 
along the river bottoms of the Alabama 
River, in Wilcox and Monroe counties. Leave 
the boat at Black's Bluff or Clinton, or take 
the Selma & Gulf Railroad to Allenlon or 
Pine Apple. For operations in Monroe coun- 
ty, leave the boat at Claiborne. 

The Louisville, Nashville & Great Southern 
Railroad renders the game sections of Lime- 
stone county easy of access. Game is abun- 
dant, and consists of deer, turkeys, quail, 
ducks, and geese, and fine sport can be had 
in taking black bass, jack salmon, speckled hen, 
&c. St>jp at Elkmout, Athens, or other points 
along the route. Hotel accommodations at 
Elkmont and Athens. There are many ex- 
cellent points along the Tennessee and Elk 
rivers, which can be reached by boat. Good 
fishing can be had at Guutersville. Short 
Creek is well supplied with black bass, cat- 
fish, drum, perch, red-horse, and wall-eyed 
pike. The place can be reached by wagon 
from Huntsville, thiriy miles distant. 

The best game districts in the State are 
Choctaw and Marengo counties, lying be- 
tween the Tombigbee River and the Missis- 
sippi State line. The country is rough — 
hills, valleys, and dales — and the game con- 
sists .of deer, bears, wild- cats, raccoons, opos- 
sums, rabbits, squirrels, wild turkeys, ducks, 
quail, geese, snipe, woodcock, &o. Outside 
of Louisiana, it would be difficult to find a 
better place for woodcock. Deer and tur- 
keys are also abundant. The counties are 



full of lakes, and these are full of fish of 
several varieties. The Tombigbee also con- 
tains an abundance of fish. The section is 
reached from Montgomery by the Western 
Alabama Railroad, Alabama Central to De- 
mopolis, tlien by boat down Tombigbee River 
to Tuskohoma, aiid thence wagon to Butler; 
or go to York, and thence by private convey- 
ance to Mount Sterling or Butler — four miles 
distant and eight miles distant; or take the 
car at Meriden, Mississippi, to York, and 
there carriage to Butler. Or take the boat at 
Mobile to Bladen Springs Landing, and ask 
Mr. Keron to drive you to Bladen, four miles 
distant from the river. Or continue on to 
Tuskohoma, and Mr. Henry Gaines will give 
all needed information, and show the visitor 
an abundance of game. At Bladen there is 
a hotel, and Mr. James T. Staples will put the 
sportsman on the path of all the game he 
wants to shoot. There is no hotel at Butler, 
and the visitor will have to driaw on the 
known hospitalities of the villagers for ac- 
commodations. 

Berwick's Bay, or Wick's Bay as it is called 
by the natives, is simply a lake-like expan- 
sion of Fish River, where it forms an elliptical 
basin some three miles long and two miles 
broad before its embrochure into Mobile Bay, 
Where its waters mingle with those of the 
bay it is not more than two hundred yards 
wide, and at this place is a bar, which is a fine 
place for seining. Here the angler can enjoy 
the advantages of both fresh and salt water 
fishing. In the river and its numerous tribu- 
tary creeks and branches are multitudes of 
perch, and a species of bass, called by the na- 
tives fresh water trout. Berwick's Bay is 
only a mile below the mill, and in its waters 
are salt-water trout, redfish, croakers, sheeps- 
head, and mullets by the myriad. These lat- 
ter cannot be caught with a hook, but are 
easily caught with nets, and are used for bait. 
Minnows are not to be had, and cut mullet is 
used almost exclusively. Along the shores of 
the bay are several houses, built after the 
Creole style, with large overhanging roofs and 
encircling piazzas. There, standing amid moss- 
covered live oaks, magnolias with their daik 
leaves and creamy flowers, and the luxuriant 
fig trees, rank foliage, and purple fruit, form a 
scene most attractive to all lovers of Nature, 
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ing, and at all seasons plenty of game and edi- 
ble fish, reward the angler's care. The gars, 
too, do not annoj- one quite as much here as 
in the river. Should any one feel disposed lo 
explore the region here described, thoy can 
rest assured that they can, in the proper sea- 
son, find sport in plenty, both for rod and gun, 
and will never have cause to regret their visit 
to Berwick's Bay. It is easily accessible frnin 
Mobile, Alabama. 



THE NEVERSINK COUNTRY. 

Those who love fishing, not merely for its 
associations, and love Nature as well, who 
would be content to wade the stream all day 
perhaps without landing a half pounder, and 
who enjoy the hardships of a life in the woods, 
and the spice of camping out, would do well to 
make a short trip lo the wild lands of Ulster 
and Sullivan co\inties. They are easj' of ac- 
cess, and in point of solitude, no doubt they 
are superior lo the Adirondacks, where, it is 
said, a man cannot bathe in a mountain lake 
without cutting his feet on the remnants of 
some broken whisky bottle, or lie down at 
night without staining his blanket on a cigar 
stump — eloquent traces of some of our modern 
woodsmen. 

The Beaverkill and Neversink rivers, the 
most important streams in this region, have 
for many years been well known to New York 
sportsmen, and are now almost abandoned, 
and considered "fished out," but there are still 
many parts of this wilderness, especially at the 
headwaters of the Neversink and its tributa. 
ries, which have never yet been visited by the 
white man, and numerous streams, small but 
well stocked with gamey little irout, and uu- 
fished, save bj' the wary mmk. 

There are several ways of reaching this re- 
gion, but the shortest and least expensive is to 
take the afternoon boat from New York to 
Rondout, on the Hudson, and pass the night 
at a hotel, taking the 7 A. M. train the next 
morning on the Rondout & Oswego Railroad 
for Big Indian Station. Reaching here at 9 
A. M., a tramp of five or six miles on a road 
which follows the Big Indian River to near its 
headwaters and then crosses the mountains, 
will take you to the sources of the west 
branches of the Neversink. There are log 
houses here and there along the road at which 



you can inquire the way and purciiase such 
provisions as you can carry. It will pay to 
camp the first night on the Big Indian, and by 
striking down a bark peeler's road about luilf 
a mile above the last s.iw mill, you will reach 
a wild little hollow through which the stream 
flows. A rod or two above the old corduroy 
bridge, and close beside the stream are poles 
of a shanty, and in front of them the remains 
of a fire, where a party camped one night a 
few Summer's since, and had fair luck with 
the trout before dark and afier sunrise the 
next mornin;.'. The east and west branches 
How about twelve miles, separated by high and 
thickly wooded mountain ranges, before unit- 
ing to form the main stream. Each is full of 
trout, as are also the Biscuit and Fall brooks, 
tributaries of the west branch. The trout are 
small, a half pounder being generally the max- 
imum of a day's fishing, and the average much 
less. The most taking flies are found to be 
the whitewiuged coachman and the brown lien. 
But the trout rise so well to everything, there 
is no necessity of changing the cast so very 
often. 

The expenses of a two or three weeks trip, 
including extras, are $15. Items: Fare on 
boat from New Yoik to Rondout, including 
supper, .$2; hotel at Rondout. $1.50: fare to 
Big Indian, about ^2, making for trip aud re- 
turn ,$11. As there are no expenses after 
leaving Big Indian Station, except buying 
bread and butter &c., at an occasional log 
house, the $4 remaining will be amply siitfi- 
cieiit. 

For baggage, carry a fly rod, axe, rubber 
and woolen blankets, coffee pot. aud creel. 
The nights are usually very cold, wild pigeons 
are sometimes numerous, partridges are abun- 
dant, and deer may be sometimes seen. Many 
of the rarer warblers will be found breeding 
here, as also the hermit thrush, olive backed 
thrush, and olive sided flycatclier. Bear tracks 
are frequently seen, and foxes and porcupines 
though very numerous, are not often met with. 

The Neversink country is no place for tlio.se 
who cannot camp out without all the luxuries 
of civilization and who require three or lour 
guides to do their work. Guides cannot be 
had, and a man must be content with such 
luxuries as he can carry on his back for ten 
miles over some of the steepest mountains in 
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA KESERVOIRS. 



Connected with the aqueduct which supphes 
the cities of Wasbinglou and Georgetown with 
Potoniac water, are two immense reservoirs, 
one of wliich is known as llie receiving reser- 
voir, and the other aa the distributing reser-" 
voir. The first is used for the storage of water 
to supply the ciiy in case of a fresliet in the 
river, or when the water continues muddy for 
any length of time; and tlie otlier, located at 
tliehead of the pipe line, supplies the various 
mains leading to the two cities. Both of these 
reservoirs are filled with black bass, and afford 
rare sport. Tlie fountain head of the water 
supply is at the Great Falls of tl e Potomac, 
si.xieen miles from "Washington, and from this 
point a brick conduit, nine feet in diameter, 
brings Ihe water a distance of about ten miles 
to the receiviusi reservoirs where it leads into 
Dalecarlia Tunnel, which connects the conduit 
above with the conduit below the reservoir, 
so the daily supply of water can be drawn di- 
recUy (rem tlie Potomac or the reservoir. 
From the receiving to the distributing reser- 
voir, a distance of two miles, the conduit is of 
the same size as above. The receiving reser- 
voir has been in use about fifteen years, and 
during that time the bass have increased and 
multiplied therein with great rapidity, besides 
the supply is annually increased by the young 
ones, which come down the conduit from the 
FhIIs, and easily get through the wire screens 
into the reservoir on account of their diminu- 
tive sizf-. Many now in the waters of the 
reservoir have been there twelve or fourteen 
years, and in that time have attained a weight 
of from four to five pounds. The largest bass 
ever known to be taken in this locality weigh- 
ed five pounds and ten ounces. It was cap- 
tured early one morning in the reservoir, and 
fought ■' ravely before lie was landed. This 
reservoir covers an area of forty-four acres, 
and varies in depth from two to fifty feet. The 
bait used for bass in these waters is live min- 
now, frogs, and crawfish. They never rise to 
a fly in the still waters of the reservoirs, 
though they often take it in the Potomac in 
places where rocks abound, forming rapids 
and eddies. The bass undoubtedly spawn in 
the reservoirs, and for that purpose seek the 
( headwaters in the Spring, where it is not so 
deep. As warm weather approaches they re- 
turn to the deep water. They have been fre- 



qnentlj' taken weighing from two to three 
pounds, and when a bass of that size is liook- 
ed in water fifteen or twenty feet deep, with 
no rocks, grass, or snags to catch the line, he 
affords delightful sport. Their favorite feed- 
ing time is early morning, and instances are 
on record where eight or ten fine ones have 
been captured from, sunrise to eight or nine 
o'clock, and after that time no bait, however 
attractive, could draw them to the hook. 
Trolling for them with minnow for bait is 
often very successful in these reservoirs, es- 
pecially in August and September. A permit 
from the aqueduct authorities is necessary to 
enjoy the privilege of fishing in these waters, 
but the courteous ofiQcers having charge of the 
work never refuse such permission to gentle- 
men whom they know will not abuse the pri- 
vilege. 

HOY'S WILDERNESS. 

Oakland, Maryland, on the line of the Bal- 
timore k Ohio Railroad, is the point where you 
leave the railroad. A team or teams can be 
found at this place to convey parties across 
the " Backburn Mountain," a distance of thir- 
teen miles ; thence to a place called " Shook 
Shop" — Abernathy's, about eight miles thence 
to the " Pine" region — Wm. Kitsmiller's — 
about seven miles. This is as far as you can 
go with a wagon, but horses can be had at 
Kitsmiller's to take you three miles further on 
to his brother's Lloyd Kitsmiller, and you are 
at Hoy's Wilderness. Lloyd is an old experi- 
enced hunter and fisherman, and always ready 
to give any information in this line, and also 
to act as guide. The old Dobbin House, a 
short distance from Kitsmiller's, and in the 
very heart of the Wilderness, was built many 
years ago by a Baltimorlan, for himself and 
friends to occupy during the hunting and fish- 
ing season, long since deserted, but left in 
charge of Lloyd Kitsmiller, is a splendid place 
for a party to stop. The house has plenty of 
room, with furniture and bedding and will cost 
the sportsmau nothing. Kitsmiller will pro- 
vide it with a cooking stove, and play the gen- 
ial host and guide, for a nominal sum (plenty 
of the extract of maize), for hunters are his de- 
light and a godsend in this out of th9 way 
place. 

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a lordly mansion iu its very ceutre. Deer, pan- 
ther, bear, wildcats, turkeys, and in fact, game 
of all kinds right at the door of this pwlalial 
eslablishment, with all the comforts of a city 
within. The Blackwater is full of the beauti- 
ful speckled trout, and Kitsmiller guarantees 
them by the thousands. The fall of Black- 
water is always a good guide, and parties can 
focate themselves by the fall, for it can be 
iieard for several miles — having a perpendicu- 
lar fall of eighty-five feet. 

PORTER'S LAKE AND SUR- 
ROUNDINGS. 

The quickest and best way to reach Porter's 
Lake from Philadt iphia is to take the cars from 
the Kensington Depot and go to Stroudsburg. 
An excursion ticket to that place will cost 
$■4.85. A puriy can get a wagon at Strouds- 
burg from W. K. Henry, who keeps a livery 
stable, and will take them to the lake for $6. 
It will take about six hours' ride lo get there, 
or, if they write to the proprietor of the hotel, 
Adam Rinehart, he will send his teem to meet 
them. 

As regards the fish in the lake, the angler 
will find pickerel, catfish, and perch. The 
black bass were only put in the lake iu Au- 
gust, 1874, by Howard J. Reeder, one of the 
Fish Commissioners of Pennsylvania. Anglers 
will find plenty of troui streams in the neigh- 
borhood, particularly the Bushkill Creek, made 
famous by the late Thad. Xorris's frequent re- 
ference to it in his " Angling in American Wa- 
ters." They will also find good trout fishing 
in the Sawkill Creek, Middle Branch, and In- 
dian Calvin Branch (branches of the Bushkill), 
which streams are all within a short distance 
of Porter's Lake, and it will afford good sport 
fishing these streams for those who know how. 
It is doubtful if a satisfactory place lo camp 
on the borders of the lake can be found ; can 
get good board at the hotel for $7 per week, 
which will entitle them to the use ot the boats, 
whereas should they camp out and have no 
boats, it is very doubtful if they can catcli any 
large fish, for they are only to be caught at 
certain places in the lake, which can only be 
fished from a boat. It is best that visitors 
make their headquarters at the hotel, where 
they will find nice clean beds and good square 
meals, and they will also find Ad. a good fel- 
low, who does all he can to make his guests 



comfortable. If they have made up their 
minds to camp out, they are advised to go to 
what is called the " High Knob," wiiich is 
about nine miles from Pcrtt-i's Lake. You 
take the same cars and get off at Oakland, and 
procure a team lo take you to the " Knob." 
The black bass fishing at the '■ Knob" can be 
recommended. A parly caught eighty-seven 
large ones in a day, some of which weighed 
four pounds, and another party came out v.-ith 
one hundred and thirty-three, having caught 
them from Monday noon lo Tuesday noon. 
Any person in search of black bass fishing is 
advised to try the " High Knob," but take a 
boat along. 



SALMON RIVER, NEW YORK. 

Among the numerous resorts of sportsmen 
in the State of New York there are few more 
easily accessible, or whicli afford better sport 
than the Salmou River, above what is known 
as the " State Dam." Here, within thirteen 
miles of Malone, is a stream which, notwith- 
standing its frequent visitors, affords an inex- 
haustible quanlity of trout. The pond raised 
by the dam varies greatly in size. Generally 
it is only about a quarter of a mile in length, 
and above that the river winds a tortuous 
course for several miles among grassy flats, 
and for a still further distance a still more de- 
vious way, if possible, among a thick margin 
of alders. With the probable view of making 
the greatest possible display, it lakes more 
turns and twists lo the square mile than i.\- 
most any known stream, ten minutes' rowing 
frequently bringing you back within fifty feet 
of where you started from. The water is swift 
and ice cold, and Nature, by way of compen- 
sation for the knots she has tied in the course, 
has located a trout hole in the curve of each 
oend, which is well populated by the •' speck- 
led beauties" so dear to the heart of all sports- 
men. When the water is up, as it is general- 
ly during the first part of August, a boat can 
go all over the meadows, the trout running 
farther up, the distance to the fishing grounds 
being thereby reduced about seventy-five per 
cent. Several lakes and ponds empty in this 
river, which furnish homes for the irout in the 
Winter, ana its upper waters seem to be all 
spawning beds, which accounts for the abun- 
dance of the trout. Nearly all those fishing 
will average sixty to seventy trout a day, the 



HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORT& 243 



largest running from a pound to a pound and 
a half, and from tliat down, and when tlie num- 
ber of visitors is considered tliere seems to be 
but little exaggeration in the remark made by a 
sportsman in Malone that " more than three 
tons of trout had been taken out of Salmon 
River in a year." Tliey seem to be taken bet- 
ter with a fly than with bait, the favorites be- 
ing a red ibis=, brown hackl?, and a gray fly. 
Montreal flies and white aiillers are also used 
Willi success. 

Many deer come into Round Pond, Wolf 
Potid, and the other sheets of water in the 
neigliborhood, and traces of bear are also vis- 
ible. Many partridges are to be found In the 
woods. There is a good, although unpreten- 
tious, hotel at tlie dam, kept by R J. Cunning- 
ham ( known as " Rus"), where guides and 
boats can be obtained. The house is beauti- 
fully clean and tiie fare good. Visitors should 
take the Hudson River & New York Central 
Railroad to Malone via Ogdensburg & Lake 
Champlain Railroad. From there a team can 
be hired for the State Dam. 

GLIMPSES OF SOME NORTU- 
WESTERN SCENERY. 

An able correspondent of The Chica- 
go Fidel writes tbusly of what may be 
seen in the Northwest: 

For the number of its beautiful lakes and 
rivers, Wisconsin is unsurpassed by any State 
in the couut/y. Even in the thickly settled 
southern portions of the State they can hardly 
be named or numbered for the multitude of 
them, while lying to the north of a line run- 
ning east and west through the centre of the 
State, from Eastmoor on the Mississippi to 
Green Buy, is a vast country as large as the 
State of New York, and as full of deer and 
ducks and grouse, and lovely gems of lakes, 
and sparkling trout streams as the Adiron- 
dack reigon itself, awaiting the Summer ad- 
venturer. The beauty of Geneva Lake is well 
known. It is a rival for the clearness of its 
waters, and the natural cleanliness of its white 
pebbled shores to the far-famed Walden of 
Thoreau, near Concord, Massachusetts. Lake 
Geneva possesses more natural beauty than 
Thoreau's Walden. 

Only six miles from Geneva Lake is Delevan 
Lake, another attractive sheet of water five 



miles long and a mile wide. No better fishing 
ground for rock and black bass and pickerel 
can be found in the State. Its .shores, like those 
of Geneva, are being lined with Summer cot- 
tages and pleasure grounds, and the sportsman 
will soon have to seek other lakes less easy of 
access to the general public. The lovely chain 
of lakes which environ Madison, give it the 
most beautiful and picturesque location of any 
city in the country, are too well known to i.eed 
any descriptior. 

In Greon Lake county the sportsman will 
find plenty of duck shooting and the tourist 
will find some interesting lake scenery on Big 
aud Little Green Lakes. The former lake is 
eight miles in length by two in width, and the 
latter about, half as large. The scenery around 
these lakes is picturesque add beautiful beyond 
description. The north shore of Little Green 
Lake for more than a mile in extent is com- 
posed of a beautiful white sandstone, rising in 
some instances perpendicularly to the height 
of seventy-five to eiirhty feet. The lakes are 
of remarkable depih and clearness of water, 
and their bottoms have in many places the ap- 
pearence of white marble floors, from the many 
white shells which lie upon them. The shores 
of Lake Winnebago are lined with many beau- 
tiful oak groves which cffer very attractive 
spots in which to eiect a Summer's camp or 
build a more permanent Summer retreat. The 
country arouud Winnebago Lake is one of 
great fertility and richness, and no more plea- 
sant country and lake scenery can be found. 

Green Bay City has a beautiful situation 
near the mouth of the lower Fox River where 
it empties into Green Bay. Klkhiirt is anoth- 
er one of those delightful lake resorts where 
one would be ahnost content to live forever in 
the beauty of it* natural surroundings. In 
fact, in the fifty three counties of the Slate, 
whose geography and lopoyraphy are well 
known, hardly one can be found which does 
not contain at least a score of lakes more or 
less picturesque and attractive to the lover of 
scenery or to the sportsman. At Ocouomo- 
woc, not less tiian forty-one of these lakes are 
found in a radius of nine miles, making one of 
the finest drives and parks anywhere to be 
found. These lakes are filled with pickerel, 
bass, and perch. 

If the tourist prefers rivers to lakes, there 
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than the Wisconsin, the Black, the Chippewa, 
the Fox, the St. Croix, on tlie northwestern 
boundary, or the Menominee, on the norih- 
eastern, and a hundred otliers vvhicli invite 
him to launcli his craft upon their broad cur- 
rents, and explore iheirbeHUties frntn mouth 
to source. Embarkingf at tlie mouih of ilie 
Wisconsin, just below Prairie du Oiiien, the 
voyageur will have before him ere he reaches 
its source a trip of six hundred miles, or a 
river two h\iudied miles loiger than the Con- 
necticut. Wiiidiiifr its way peacefully the 
greater part of its course through the prairies 
it passes at several points through scenery of 
peculiar grandeur, the equal of which is not 
seen on any New Enijland river. In Richland 
county the river is bordered liy sandstone bluffs 
over two hundred feet hi>;h. ft is here four 
hundred feet wide. Arriving at Portage the 
voyrgeur can cross into the Fox River and be 
borne on its current a hundred and fifty miles 
to Lake Winnebago and Green Bay. The Yo\ 
passes tlirough extensive mar-ihes covered 
with tall grass and wild rice These marshes 
abound in wild-fowl and snipe. The Fox is, 
for the most part, an uninteresting and tame 
stream with the exception of the Grand Chute, 
where for several miles the banks are high aud 
steep, and the current strong and rapid. 

If the voyageur continues his course from 
Portage to Kilbourn City, twenty miles distant, 
be enters the famous Delis, wliose picturesque 
beauty has often been described. The river 
here for several miles flows between perpen- 
dicular cliffs threr lumdred feet high in a bed 
only forty feet in width. Above Stevens' Point 
the river flows for two hundred miles through 
the pine forests. It rises in the Lac Vieux 
Desert, a small but lively lake, that contains 
three islands. The country for many miles 
around the lake is one of great fertility not- 
withstanding that its name implies a desolate, 
barren reigon. It is said to have received its 
name from an old deserted planting ground of 
the Indians near it. The lake, and the numer- 
ous small streams Avhich empty into the Wis- 
consin as it winds its way through the vast 
pineries, are filled with trout. Ducks are plen- 
tiful, and bears and deer abound in this reigon. 

One of the most interesting trips which can 
be found in the Northwest is to ascend the 
Mississippi from La Crosse to St. Paul. The 
tourist will enjoy the fine scenery of the Up- 



per Mississippi, and the sportsman will like- 
wise improve the opportunity to try his hand 
at cat-fishing. About eighty miles above La 
Crosse is an expansion of the river to three 
miles in width, known as Lake Pepin, wliich 
mention is made on page 113. The celebrated 
Maiden Rock, with its oft told legend of a fair 
Indian maiden betrothed against her wishes 
by her father to one whom she did not love, 
who flung herself from the rock into the river, 
two hundred feet below, to escape tlie marri- 
age, will interest the tourist here. Leaving the 
Mississippi at St. Paul, he may cross over to 
tlie St. Croix about ten miles distant and re- 
embark in a canoe for a trip of niuet)' miles 
up this river which passes through a country 
rich in picturesque scenery, to the portage of 
the Brule River, which empties into Lake Su- 
perior near Superior City. The Brule is a 
small stream, but i. surpasses, if possible, the 
St. Croix for beauty. Its banks are lined with 
beautiful verdure and shrubbery, and so nar- 
row is the stream in some places that the trees 
interlock their branches overhead making a 
natural bower. This stream, like all the other 
streams in the northern part of the State, is 
well stocked with speckled trout, while the 
surrounding country is good huntirg ground 
for deer, bears, grouse, and ducks. At Supe- 
rior, steamer can be taken for Bayfield and 
Ashland, two interesting and popular Sum- 
mer resorts, where the whole season could be 
delightfully spent in company with the gun 
and rod, and in excursions to the famed Apos- 
tle Islands which lie near them. 

To those desirous of navigating a river full 
of falls and rapids, and partaking in its genral 
character of a mountain stream, the Menomo- 
nee in the extreme northeastern part of the 
State presents itself. It is here that sturgeon 
are still taken, and the sportsman will find 
it one of the strongest attractions to visit this 
stream. The Menomonee rises in the Katakit- 
tekon country in the northern part of Wis- 
consin, the same reigon which gives source 
to the Wisconsin, the Chippewa, the Montreal 
and the Ontonagon rivers of Michigan. Its 
general aspect is exceedingly picturesque. A 
series of falls and chutes at short distances 
necessitate light portages by those who at- 
tempt the difficult and exciting task of ascend- 
ing it in a canoe or boat. Two weeks liave 
been consumed in overcoming its rapids and 



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245 



currents, while Us de.scent lias been made in 
five days. Tlie most maL'iiilicent of its cas- 
cades is the lower falls of the series. Here 
the whole river diishes in miglity masses of 
foam over a pfrpeudicuhir wall of rock fifty 
feet deep. The next fall in dectndino: the 
river is the Little Quinnessee, where the fall is 
Ihirly-five feet in an extent of two hmidrtd 
and fifty. The river here is contracted to 
eighty feet. A short distance below is Sandy 
PortHge, a beautiful rapid about a mile in ex- 
tent with a perpendicular fall of a few feel. 
At Sturgeon Fall the river rushes between 
cliffs a hundred feet liigh. The scenery here is 
very fine. From its mouth as far up as Big 
Quinnesac Falls, it passes through pine lim- 
ber lands, much of which has been r.ivaged 
by fires, which gives it a desolate appearcnce, 
but above these falls the country assumes its 
natural beauty. 

Space would fail us to picture all the rivers 
in this State which possess inherent beauties 
to the sportsman as well as tourist, which is 
worthy of special menti(^n. 

One of the peculiar beauties of the lakes 
and rivers of Wisconsin which is seldom seen 
in the lakes and rivers of the East is their 
crystal purity and coldness. They originate 
in springs, and are not dependent for their life 
upon the drainage of the rain falls. Even 
when, with apparently no outlet, the hikes do 
not grow stagnant, but remain clear and cool. 
They are, moreover, plentifully stocked with 
pickerel, bass, whitefish, trout, sturgeon, cat- 
fish and perch. 

Wisconsin was the favorite land of the In- 
dian. He has left a name for nearly all her 
lakes and rivers, and by their shores the re- 
mains of his home and his grave are still vis- 
ible. It is possible that the work of a race 
which inhabited this country before him also 
exists on the rivers aud lakes, beside of his 
own. In all parts of the State the remains of 
ancient earth works are to be found. The 
tourist will find them especially abundant at 
I Azialian, on Rock River, near the Blue Mound.s, 
lalonglhe Wisconsin, the Xeenah and the Pish- 
Itaka ; also in the eastern part of the State near 
(Milwaukee and Lake Winnebago. The curi- 
ous who have attempted to unravel their se- 
crets, have sometimes been rewarded by frag- 
ments of pottery, pipes or arrow heads, or a 
imold of deeper color than the earth which eu- 






ca.sed it, and which was all that remained of 
the inhabitant who once roamed these beau- 
tiful prairies. 

Nothing adds so much to the beauty of 
Western scenery as the oak openings whiih 
■ line its rivers and lakes, and slopes of its roll- 
ing prairies. Nitnre has formed beautiful 
parks planted ihem with noble oaks, and co- 
vered ihetn with a aich green turf which is 
kept as smooth and {.reen as the freshly cut 
and freshly-watered artificial parks of the 
Eastern States. To one accustomed to the 
disagreeable underbrush and decayed leaves 
which make the Xew England woods ustially 
uiivisitalile and uninviting, llnse oak open- 
ing.s, with their green carpets unsoiled by de- 
caying limds and leaves, seem to !)e kept d.-.ily 
in order by the hands of the gardner. They 
bear a striking resemblance to English paik 
scenery which has been for years under cul- 
tivation. An can never equal them. Tiny 
are the natural garden spots of the country. 
The tourist wlio seeks grand mouiitain scenery 
must go elsewhere than than to Wisconsin ; 
but for all ihat is attractive in Nature, beauti- 
ful landscape scenery, splendid water views, 
lovely woodland scenery, and the flowering 
prairies, this .section of the country isnnequal- 
ed. Each year is giving better facilities for 
enjoying these numerous and delightful re- 
sorts, and many of them are already supplied 
wiln e.xcellent hotels and conveniences. Art 
is putting the finishing strokes tipon them, 
which is all t'Tt is needed to make them at- 
tractive to every taste. It is no longer neces- 
sary tor the tourist to look to New England 
or New York or Pennsylvania for the most 
attractive Summer resorts ; and the sportsman 
will not find anywhere in the United States a 
reigon which will aflTord him so much genuine 
sport as the prairies and forests and rivers of 
the Northwest. 

LAKE GENEVA. 

The delightful village of Geneva is in Wal- 
wortii coimty, Wisconin, situated on the noith 
shore of Lake Geneva. No more lovely sheet of 
water can be found in the Northwest, aud no 
town could be blessed with more charming 
scenery. It is rapidly becoming noted for its 
beauty, aud a large number of the best fami- 
lies are making it their summer resort. Ita 
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past has been very marked, and Uie extensive 
hotels upon its banks are constantly thronged 
with tourists and travelers from every part of 
tlie country. Two fine side-wheel steamers 
make regular trips from Geneva to Fontana 
and intermediate points of interest aflbrding 
the richest enjoyment to the seeker of plea- 
sure. The waters are remarkably clear and 
cold, being supplied by springs, and in many 
places are known to V)e very deep. The lake 
was called by the TudisMis " Kish-wa-ke-ta," 
signifying •' crystal water" In later times it 
was known as Big Foot Lake from its slight 
resemblance to a mammoth human leg and a 
monstrous foot. The lake as it is now known 
was named for Geneva Lake, in New York, 
which in turn was named for Geneva Lake in 
Switzerland. Its shores are in places bold, at 
others undulating; here topped with grand old 
forests of oak, there openine out into a wide 
rolling stretch of country, doited with fields 
of waving grass and grain, and beautiful farm- 
houses. Mansions of great size and immense 
cost, displaying e.xquisite architectural taste, 
and surrounded by grassy terraces and rarest 
flower gardens, adorn the shores near the vil- 
lage, while the lands for some miles out have 
lately been purchased by capitalists, and some 
day not far distant will be adorned with all 
that money and .skill can do to render a rural 
home lovely and inviting. Springs of mineral 
properties have been discovered at the head 
of the lake, where a large summer boarding- 
house has been erected. The fish of the lake 
are pickerel, rock and black bass, and perch; 
but the most important of all is the celebrated 
" Cisco," which comes to shore and is usually 
seen but once during the year, which is from 
the 10th to the 15th of June, when a certain 
fly becomes unpleasantly abundant about the 
shore, and which becomes food for the cisco 
during this their spawing season. Cisco-fish- 
ing is a sport relished by many, who travel 
ofiiimes long distances to partake of it with 
the villagers, who generally turn out and make 
it a gala week ; it is, in fact, the principal June 
sport for man, woman, and child for a radius 
twenty miles round the lake. The cisco may 
be taken with bait or fly, though the latter is 
the most natural food. The cisco is consider- 
ed excellent game of its size, and will rise as 
vigorously as a book trout, often meeting the 
fly before it touches the water. They should 



be fished for with a single-handed fly-rod, like 
the trout; though a sixteen-feet perch-rod is 
recommended, as perch and small black bass 
occupy the same feeding-grounds, and often 
rise 10 the fly or take the biit. 13ut the cisco 
shows to best advantage when properly cook- 
ed and temptingly di:<pUiyed to a hungry fish- 
man on the table. 

Lake Geneva is on the Chicago & North- 
western Railway, eighty-six miles from Chica- 
go via Elgin, and seventy miles from Chicago 
via Crystal Lake. During the Winter, through 

j trains are run only via Elgin. 

I 

CAPE BRETON. 

Many fancy that Cape Breton is a de-olate 
sort of place, inhabited by the waifs and 
j strays of mankind, who earn a precariovis liv- 
j ing on the coast by cod fishing, and in the in- 
terior by no one knows what; that ice and 
snow are the portion of the ir habitants for 
I eight months of the year, while the balance is 
' divided about equally between fog and fine 
I weather. However true this may be of the 
j seasons, tlie impression one forms of tie peo- 
ple does not suggest any great struggle in the 
; fight for existence. In traveling from Ilaw- 
kesbury, in the Gut of Canso, to Fort Hood ; 
from there to the Margaree Forks ; tlience to 
j Baddeck and back again, by the Bras d'or 
j Lakes to the place of startintf, one traverses a 
j country in some places thickly settled, but all 
I apparently well settled by a race of men phy- 
\ sically the superior of any other on the face 
j of this continent. They are chiefly of High- 
! land Scotch descent, with a sprinkling of 
; French Canadians. The accommodations in 
the way of inns in the villages are of the poor- 
est and dirtiest description, the only really 
decent place being the Bras d'or Hotel at Bad- 
deck. 

In regard to salmon fishing, the Margaree 
River is considered the best in Cape Breton ; 
but there are doubtless many smaller streams 
on both shores of the island where good sport 
j might bo had. The banks of the river are 
quite open and clear of trees, and there are 
few rocks or impediments of any kind to pre- 
vent one fishing it with the greatest ease. 
The owners of the pools up and down the 
river, within a mile or so of the forks, are in 
the habit of renting their rights to certain fish' 
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many nionilis in advance, a trip to lliis river 
for salmon fisliing would probably resnlt in 
unmiiieated dir^appointnieiit. When, how- 
ever, the river is fnll of flsh, there are some 
good pools np the northeast branch, wliicli 
the owners have not yet learned to charore for, 
and in whicli good sport can be had under cer- 
tain conditionsof the river. For trout fishin<r, 
the Miiidle and Baddeck rivers are first rate, 
and for sea trout excellent sport can be had at 
the tide water in the Margaree, and many fi>h 
may be killed ranging in weight from one to 
three pounds. 



MUSSEL SHOALS, TENNESSEE 
EI VEIL 
The attention of anglers is called to 
tlie excellent fishing localities fotind m\ 
the Tennessee River and its tributaries. 
The greatest inland fishing centrcraiid 
the most noted may bo found on the 
" Mussel Shoals," a section of the Ten- 
nessee River lying in North Alabama, 
covering a distance of thirty miles, and 
extending from the mouth of the Elk 
River to the town of Florence, Alabama. 
What has been done in the way of an- 
gling along these shoals would fill vol- 
umes, exhibiting some of the rarest and 
finest sport in North America. The geo- 
logical formation of the river's bed is 
such that the mighty stream has, with 
apparent difficulty, worked out its pre- 
sent channel, and it is a notable fact that 
no change or alteration of sufficient im- 
portance to be noticed has occurred in 
the past century. Great pools, eddies, 
and expanded areas in the river are to be 
found all along the shoals, produced by 
projecting ledges of rock, in which count- 
less numbers of the finest bass sport and 
frolic undisturbed, except by an occa- 
sional buffalo hunter in his dugout with 
gig and torch, producing at times a scene 
both picturesque and lurid. Those per- 
sons who fish for bass along the river 
confine themselves to the mouths of 



creeks, and at favorable seasons catch 
immense numbers of ihem to the extent 
that one actually grows tired of lashing 
the banks with them. This kind of work 
generally comes in the month of April 
when the river is swollen and muddy and 
the creeks clear. Any lover of angling 
may have magnificent sport in these mag- 
nificent shoals of the Tennessee, and a 
continuous repetition of it by moving 
fcom point to point. There is room here 
for all and the supply of bass inexhaust- 
ible. 

IN THE EASTERN STATES. 



THE PLYMOUTH AND BARXSTABLE WOODS* 
MASSACHUSETTS. 

The [irincipal hunting and fishing to 
to be had in Massachusetts is to be 
found in what is called the Cape Cod 
Country, which is traversed in every di- 
section by the Old Colony Railroad and 
its numerous branches. The Plymouth 
and Barnstable Woods (the only part 
of the State in which deer can now be 
found) are indented with numerous beau- 
tiful lakes, filled with many varieties 
of fish, including black bass, pickerel, 
white and yellow perch, &c. The white 
and yellow perch are very abundant in 
these waters, and are of most excellent 
flavor. Most of these lakes (or ponds, 
as they are called there) are fed by ice- 
cold springs, from which flow bright 
sparkling brooks, the home of the spec- 
kled trout, that afford splendid sport. 
The Marshpee River, troutingly consid- 
ered, is the glory of Cape Cod, and is 
celebrated for the quantity, quality, and 
size of its fish. The river is very clear 
and cold, miming over a hard, sandy, 
and pebbly bottom, with numerous holes 
and turns for fish to lurk in, and can be 
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Bay is where, in tlie Spring;, those m-ag- 
wificent salt-w;iter trout jue talvcn, said 
to be the finest specimens of the fish in 
t'.e country, often attiiiniuo: the weiuht 
<r>f tliree and four i)onn(l^, and silvery as 
salmon. Child's lliver, Pakct, Wakeley 
Pond, Waquoit, and several others, the 
names of which are not remembered, are 
noted localities. Tiiese strean)s are about 
fourteen miles from West l>aru<;table. 
The trout of the Cape Cod stieams are 
hi;^]ily prized for their excellent flavor. 
These ponds in mention ai'e tlie resorts 
of numerous Summer (wood) and black 
ducks in the Fall and Sprinj; months, and 
are visited by sportsmen from Uoston, 
us well as all the ueighborinj;- villages. 
All through these woods are quail, ruflVd 
grouse, rabbits, and some few woodcock 
— rabbits are extremely plenty, and can 
be shot almost any where. The grounds 
are easily reached by stopping at any of 
the stations on the different divisions. 
Wareham, Agawam, Cohasset > ar- 
rows, Pocasset, Sandwich, West Barn- 
stable, Cotuit Port, Ilyamiis, Brewster, 
Chatham, and Wood's Hole, accesj-.il>le 
by Cape Cod Division ; Abington, Plymp- 
ton, and Plymouth reached by Plymouth 
Division; Weymouth, Hiugham, Nantas- 
kot, Cohasset, Scituate, Marshtield, and 
Duxbury, accessible via South Shon; 
Branch and Cohasset A: Duxbury Exten- 
sion; Qnincy, Randolph, Fall River, 
and Tiverton, on the Newj)0rt Branch; 
and Kew Bedford, the terminus of the 
New Bedlord Divison, are good points to 
make headquarters. All the best shoot- 
ing and fishing grounds in the Plymouth 
and Biirnstable W^oods are easily reached 
from any of the towns mentioned as be- 
ing on the Cape Cod Division, and from 
Plymouth. Wareham, Agawam, Cohas- 
set Narrows, and Pocasset are at the 
head of Buzzard's Bay, afibrding excel- 



lent salt water Ashing. The railroad 
bridge at Coha:,set Narrows is a noted 
spot for striped bass. At times these 
striped fellows are very abundant and of 
goodly proportions. The writer witness- 
ed the capture one afternoon by one rod 
from off this bridge of two bass, one 
weighing thirty-three pounds and the 
other thirty-seven pounds; besides these, 
there were some twenty-five or thirty 
others taken by various parties weigh- 
ing from three pounds up to seventeen. 
The latter part of August and the early 
part of September is the best time and 
shedder crab, menhaden, and shrimp the 
bait the fish " go for." Along the shores 
of Buzzard's Bay, within half a mile of 
Pocasset, an abundance of fine oysters 
and clams can be had for the gatheiing. 
Old-fashioned New England bakes are 
one of the institutions the villagers still 
support. About a quarter of a mile from 
Pocasset is a small pond literally alive 
with white perch, averaging about half 
a pound each in weight. The best points 
tor deer are West Barnstable and White 
Island Pond, giving the former the pre- 
ference. White Island Pond is about 
five miles from Plymouth, and is well 
stocked with black bass, pickerel, and 
white and yellow perch. The white 
perch are of large size, and extremely 
fine eating. Near by the pond is an old 
deserted shanty, one of the out-buildings 
attached to a saw-mill that once stjod 
there, that has been fitted up with bunks 
and has a good stove. It is not in very 
good condition, but by keeping up a 
good fire, one can make himself decid- 
edly comfortable, much more so than in 
a tent, especially in cold and wet weath- 
er. Of the fishing grounds accessible 
from New Bedford and Wood's Hole it 
is hardly necessary to speak. New Bed- 
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knovvii variety of salt-water fishes that 
visit the New Eiighxml coast can be 
taki'ii in tlici^reatest abiiudance. From 
New Bedford Pasqiie Island, Nashon, 
Unttvhunk, Nashawena, and No Man's 
Land are reached by boat. Th(s; is- 
hinds are all noted as affording the best 
slrlpi.*d bass fishing in the country. The 
li h are not only abundant, but of very 
lai'ge size. Tliey are sometimes taken 
weigliing over sixty pounds; t-he capture 
of iwonty-five and thirty pounders is a 
common occtirrcnoe. All the other vari- 
eties of salt-water fisli are also abundant. 
The fishing privileges of these islands are 
controlled by private corporations, there 
being a club on each. What is here said 
about fish, will also apply to "Wood's 
Hole, at which place the wild fowl shoot- 
ing is prime from the middle of Septem- 
ber until extremely cold weather sets in. 
Wood's Hole can also be reached direct 
by New Ded.''ord steameis from New 
York. Boats leave i)ier 39 North River 
at 5 p.sr , arriving at Wood's Hole early 
next morning. J. L. Sissou is a good 
bayman, and if his services are desired 
write him in advance, and he will meet 
you on arrival of boat. He can furnish 
stools and all needed appliances. Large 
numbers of wcakfish make their appear- 
ance annually in the river at Wareham 
about the 1st of July. About five miles 
from Wareham is a small lake well sup- 
plied with black bass. Ask for Cyrus 
Liscum, and he will put you on the trail. 
At Brewster there is good smelt fishing. 
At Cohasset, North Cohasset, Ilingham, 
Weymouth, Scituate, and Duxbury, are 
black ducks, mallard, teal, brant, coots, 
plover, curlew, shore birds, quail, ruffed 
grouse. &c.; and good fishing for smelt, 
blucfisli, and other salt water varieties. 
Ttierc are many other points besides 
those here mentioned that afford good 



sport. The shooting and fishing frater- 
nity are well represented in any of the 
Cape Cod towns, and they take pleasure 
putting you on the right track. 

THE RANGELEY LAKE REGION AND BEYOXD. 

The best hunting and trout fishing io 
be had in either the Eastern or Middle 
States \<U) be found in Maine. Of its 
area ot nea^dy 32,000 square miles, over 
three-fourths is an almost unbroken wild- 
err.ess over some sections of which the 
foot of man has scarcely ever trod, and 
through which large game roam in un- 
distuibed possession. There are cari- 
bou, deer, and bears in abundance, plenty 
of grouse, squirrels, and rabbits, and ev- 
ery lake i>! full wild fowl and (rout, and 
and an abundance of every other varie- 
ty of fi li. Moose are also quite plenty. 
All through the lake region every kind 
of game is abundant, and the sportsman, 
after once striking the initial point, can 
scarcely go astray. If the reader in- 
tends " to do " the wilderness, guides are 
absolutely necessary, and are obtainable, 
with all the necessary oufit, at any of 
the start ing-in points. The following de- 
scription ofthellangeley Lakes, the Ma- 
galloway River, and Parmachenee Lake 
is compiled from Farrar's guide: 

Tlie chiiiij of lakes known as the Rangele^ 
L:ike>-, \\t- iiejir the western boiimhiry of the 
.Stale, in Franklin and Oxford cnnuiies. The 
lower lake of the chain, Umbagog, is more 
than half in Coos county, NtiW Hampshire, 
The lakes are known severally as Raiigeley or 
Oquossoe, Oiipsuplic, Mooseelucktnaguniio, or 
the Great Lake, Moleehnnkamunk, or the Up- 
per llichirdson Like.Welokennebacook, or the 
Lower Richardson Lake and Umbagog. Tlieso 
si.v lakes are all connected by narrows or 
streams, forming otu^ continuous water com- 
munication for about tifly miles. The country 
about the northern irhore of Rangeley, and the 
southe-u shore of Umbagog, is partially cleared 
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ed; all the rest of the country in the lake ro- 
pion is ail unbroken wilileriiess, known otil^- bv 
llie liuut -r ur lo.'j^er. G.une and fisli ii< abun- 
dance fire f. lui I ilirou^'li ail ilie district. Lake 
Kenntbijj> lits ;i oui fouiteen miles norili of 
Cupsuplic. i'Ud i-i CO nectcd with that lake by 
the Kcnnebiifr ' Iliver. Ji is ■ iie of llie pretti- 
est l;ikes m Mmne ;i perfi.-tl liitle gem, and its 
waters are well tilled w iili ilie speckled trout 
for wliicli llie region is famous Parties wiali- 
injj to Visit Iveiiiiebaa:o, can always procure 
guides of Mr. Joliii Ilerrick, at the Oqiiossoe 
House (Raiigeley Centre) - the easiest point 
from which to reacli Konnebago Lake. Par- 
maclienee Like lies about ?oven;y niilts iiorlli 
of Urnbatrog, in a vast wilderness, ihate.xlends 
for miles beyond It is connected with llie 
latter lake by the Magalloway River. Its wa- 
ters are filled with trout, and the forest about 
it aboiuids \vi h evoiy vaiieiy of g.ime from 
the lively little squincl to the lordly moose, 
Here, four of the iiidispensible requisites of 
tent life, viz : good clear water, plenty of firet 
wood, game, and lish. are r.Iways to be found, 
and the cozy liiile in oks, and charming spots, 
on the sliores of the lake?, or the banks of tiie 
streams each and all commanding some pic- 
turesque view, where one can pitch a tent, are 
simply innumerable. 

The routes to the Rnngeley Lakes are from 
Betliel by stage to Upton, on Lake Umbagog, 
steamer to the Inlet, and team to Middb Dam 
Camp; or from XoriJi Straiford by stage via 
Colobrook and Dixville Notch to Krrol Dam, 
steamer across Umbagog to tlie Inlet, boat up 
river to Five Mile Rapids, and across carry 
(five miles) to Middle Dam Csmp ; or from 
Bryant's Pond by stage to Andover, wliere 
teams, boats, and guides can be procured for 
the Arm of the Lake and Middle Dam Camp, 
tlien b al to the Upper D.im, and across carrj' 
to the lakes. -Ik-ihe', Norih Stratford, and 
Bryant's Po id r.-on iheGrund Tinnk Railway 
and are accessible from Portland, Canada, and 
tlie "West. Or fiom Ponland to Farmington, 
on Maine Central Railrord, stage to Phillips 
and Greenville, on Rangcley Lake, across lake 
by steamer to Camp Henry, at the Outlet, 
crossing a two mile carry to Camp Kenneb.igo 
Or can be reached from the White Mounlians 
via Gorham and other points on llie same road. 
Or from Boston via Boston, Concord & Mon- 
treal Railroad to Colt brook. Tickets from 



Boston and return : To Bethel, §7 ; lo Upton, 
$13 ; and S:{.50 extra each way to .Middle Dam 
Camp. To Bryant's Pond, $7 ; lo Andover. 
$0; to Richaidson L-.ke, $13; to Middle Dam 
Camp, $15 ; lo Upper Dam, $iG ; lo Kariniug- 
ton, $i>; to Piiill p>-, $11 ; Greenvale, $14 ; lo 
Upper Dam, $17 ; lo Colebrook, $10.70 ; Kr- 
rol Dam, via Co!eb:ool(. §17. 

Sportsinen vi-iiiing the Parmacheiice Lnkoor 
the Magalloway River have a choice of routes 
diirins; the first half <if the trip. From Boston 
to Portland by cither roiile previously de- 
scribed. At Poitlaiid lake the ears on the 
Grand TrunJi Railway loBiy;:nt';< Pond, llieiice 
via Andover, by .'lage, buck board and boat to 
the M.ddle Dam, walk across llie carry, and go 
down I'c river by row boat to the Inlet, where 
you take the steamer, thence acn s< Lake Urn- 
fa igog. and down the Androscoggin lo the 
Magalloway River. Or you may leave the 
GraiiO Trunk Raihoal al Bcllcl, thence toUp- 
tm by stage, ihcu sleamer down il,c Cam- 
bridge River, across Lake Umbagog, and down 
the Androscoggin the Magallowa}- River. Or 
leaving the railroad at Beihel' \o\\ can diive 
direct to Kiiol Dam, and take the steamer 
[here. Ti.c distance from Lake Umbagog to 
Parmacheiuc is aboiu seventy n.iles, and the 
lirsi eight or icii miles can be done on the 
steamer, with your boat in low. Before 
reaching the steamer landing, you pass Botllo 
Brook oil the west si Je of the river, a good 
place to throw a t'.y for trout. Arriving at 
the stc imer landing, which is in a district 
known as Wentworlh's Location, you got into 
your boat, cas ofT, and pull up the river Soon 
after leavingthe steamer you come to the 
head-quarters of the Berlin Lumbering Comp- 
any. There is a hotel here, the Berlin Mills 
House, where you will good accommodations 
at $2.00 per day. Five or si.\ above this 
point are Escohos Falls, where is fine trout 
lisnirig. There is a short piece of rapids, just 
Ijefore reaching Escohos Fall.s, that will con- 
sideoably try the mu.scle of any oarsman. 

Above this r pid you must make a carry 
around the falls, a distanc3 of two or three 
miles, but you can obtain a team in the neigh- 
borhood, which will draw your boat and traps 
around for $3. A little beyond a Mr. Flni's 
house, the carry path diverges from the road, 
and leads up ^hroiuh a pasture fur a hunbred 
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pasture is llie extreme limit of tlie cleared land 
on tlie river. Beyotid it lays the grent wil- 
derness. Tiiere are many excelleut places to 
be met with along: the banks of the river' and 
one can make a choice. Wood and water, 
the great requisites of cimp life, are plehiy at 
every point. Ducks, partridges, and other 
eame, are t.> be met with along tiie river, and 
taken in addition with the Irout will keep the 
larder well supdlied. The .Tune and Septem- 
ber are the months for fishing, and from the 
middle of September till late in tlie Fall the 
best lime foi* game. 

IN THE GRANITE STATE. 

The best liuntiiig and fishing to be 
had in New Hampshire is in tlie den.>-e 
and extensive forests in Coos county, sit- 
uated in the northeastern part of the 
State, bordering on the Mtiine wildcr- 
nes.s. All this region is well stocked 
with deer, bears, ruffed grouse, spruce 
grouse, vabbits, squirrels, &c , and moose 
are numerous in some localities. For 
game, and route to Magalloway Ilivcr 
and Parmaclicnee Lake see Maine. 

The lakes of the Upper Androscoggin 
are centres for excellent deer and bear 
hunting and ruffed grouse shooting, and 
splendid trout fishing. This region is only 
accessible by canoes from Errol'.s Dam. 
Game of all kinds is abundant in the re- 
gion known as the Co'.iuecticut Lakes, 
at the source of the Connecticut River. 
Deer can be found in abundance, and in 
some localities moose are especially plen- 
ty. As to ruffed grou.se, rabbits, squir- 
rels, wild fowel, and other small game, it 
is simply thick. The section is reached 
by leaving the Grand Trunk Railroad at 
North Stratford, thence stage to Cole- 
brook and Errol's Falls, boat up river 
to Duckee's Landing, on Magalloway 
River, thence up stream to Parraache- 
nee Lake, thence a portage over the 
Connecticut Lakes. Or leave the Grand 
Trunk Railroad at Island Pond, and 



take wilderness road to First Lake, Se- 
cond Lake, and so on. For woodcock, 
rnffed grouse, rabbits, and other small 
game go to Laconia, Madison, Wolf- 
boro', Fitzwilliam, Keene South Tam- 
worth, Sunapee, Rye, and Hampton. 
There are a number of bears on Chocu- 
ma Mountains, near Madison, and also 
in the mountains near Sandwich and in 
the vicinity of Bradford. The Big In- 
tervale, near Albany, is a good place 
for deer. Lake Winnipisiogee furnishes 
good fishing, and the many islands in 
the lake afford good plover shooting. 
Hampton, Madison, West Ossipee,Os 
sipee, and Wolfboro, are reached by 
j Eastern Railroad ; Laconia by Boston, 
I Concord & Montreal Railroad ; Keene 
I and Fitzwilliam by Cheshire Railroad ; 
Lake Winnipisiogee via Boston & Con- 
cord to Wier ; from which point other 
parts of the lake can be reached by boat; 
or take Boston & Maine Railroad to Al- 
ton Bay. 

The best shooting to be had in Yer 
mont is in Essex county in the northeast- 
ern corner of the State. In fact, the 
greater part of this county is a vast wil- 
derness, and contains an abundance of 
deer, ruffed grouse, and rabbits. A few 
moose can also be found — occasionally a 
bear oi- wild cat. Otter, minks, sable.=, 
and other fur-bearing animals, are abun- 
dant. Squirrels are scarce. This section 
is reached by Grand Trunk railway to Is- 
land Pond, a village in the heart of the 
forest, at which sportsmen will find good 
hotels, and other conveniences, within 
striking distance of the game mentioned. 
The country is rough, and guides arc nec- 
essary. 

At Ferrisburg can be found ruffed 
grouse, woodcock, and snipe, and we are 
informed quail. The ponds in season af- 
ford good duck-shooting. At Larabee's 



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Point is an excellent Icc.itiju tor gniy 
squirrels or a foon hunt. Good bcar- 
liuuting can be liaH in the mountains, 
iiciir Glasionbiirv. 

The Imntinp: ami lishin-i grounds in 
tlhode Island are not very extensive. 
With the exception of the coast and 
Niirraginsett liav, where all the various 
kinds of wild i'owl aiid shore birds that 
visit the New England coast are abund- 
:iiit \\\ their seasi>n, the shooting is limit- 
ed to (ii:;iil, woodcock, rabbit:, squirrels, 
and ridlMi orouse, and these arc by no 
means plriiiiful. In the Spring and Fall 
(•(xit-siioniiiig is a yiastinie much indulged 
in, iind wIkh ihe birds are plenty, as 
they gfi'.crally tu-c at those times, tlicy 
afford the l)c>l ^<\' auiesL'ment. Narra- 
gausett Bay i\\\{\ river afford f^ploudid 
fishing for sir:pr.l i'^iss, blackfish (tau- 
tog), and many orlicr >nlt water varie- 
lies of the liimy tribe There are several 
inland ponds that afford -(xxl bhick bass 
and pickend fishin-x, and some lew trout 
streams. 

Outside of the Twin Lakes, dewliere 
mentioned, the shooting and lishing in 
Connecticut is not very extensive. Some 
passable sport, however, can l)e had at 
several out-of-the-way places over quail, 
woodcock, ruffed grouse, rabbits, and 
squirrels. 

Orange Powder.— The meriis of the 
pdwcler inanuracinred by ilie L;itiiii & Rand 
Powiler Company are so well. and fiivorably 
known to sportsmen in every section of tlie 
country, that auydiing we may say iu its favor 
seems like repeaiinji: an oft told story. It ia 
used in pri'ferenee to any oiher by Captain 
BogarduH, cliampiou wing shot of the world, 
and as the Captain ia not likely use any but 
the very best powder, this faci alone should 
be a sufficient guarantee of ifs superior excel- 
lence. The Orange Powder in point of strength 
and cleanliness it is not excelled by any oilier 
powder manufactured, either in this country or 



Europe. The tavoriie sporLing brands are 
Orange Lightning.Orange Ducking,and Orange 
Rifle, and are for sale liy all tirst dass dealers 
in sporismoii's goods. 



Do you Smoke ? — Don't forget when 
you start for your eunp in the woods lo lake 
with you a few package.s of "Vanity Fair" 
smoking tobacco. Ii is an article ^viiich, in 
our experience in camp, adds much to the en- 
joyment of life in the vvoo'is, and fills an impor- 
tant place in the catalogue of the " sports 
man's wants " that nothing el%e can supply, 
and that is " a good smoke." What sportsman 
cannot recall with pleasure the soothing influ- 
ence of a good smoke of "Vaniiy Fair " ap, 
when in camp, reclining upon a bed of hem- 
lock boughs, after a fatiguing day's tramp and 
a hearty supper, he reviews the incidents of 
tlie chase. One has no idea of what luxury 
there is in a pipe in the woods until it has 
been tried, and Vanity Fair " is the article to 
try it with ; it is vastly superior lo any other. 
The pipe is the only true method of combust- 
ing the weed when in the woods. You might 
smoke forty segars and not obtain the same 
amount of satisfaction that a solitary pipe of 
tills excellent tobacco svill afford. We are glad 
lo know that many sportsmen throughout the 
I country, appreoiaiing the mci its of •' Vanity 
i Fair," and do not consider their outfit com 
! plete without It, and if you ha\e never liad 
1 the pleasure of smoking It, just ^ive ii a trial. 
j and you will say " Ii is so pleasant Jind so 
I good." 

Build Yourself Up. -Without hav- 
ing any spccitic disease, u is quite possible i< 
be in sucli a condition ot bod^ and mind as to 
render life a burden. The dullness, lassitude 
nervous sensitiveness, and general prostraiion 
which generally accompanies indigeslioi; yei 
often exists independenliy of any discoverable 
cause, iudicatoa an absolute necessity for a 
wholesome stimulant, and of all stimulants 
Wolje's Scheidam Aromatic Schnapps is the 
only one that in all respects deserves this title. 
Its spiritous basis is absolutely puke. an< 
its restorative, invigorating, and mind clearin;. 
properties place it at the head of all modern 
tonicis and correctives. It is indispensabie it. 
camp, and no one should start for the woods 
without II. Try it. 



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LYIXr-r ALOXG THE TJXK OF TYLV. 




a loculitij, we have not the least li,csilation hi saylirj, that caimot be < 
river, J vr 



■elled west of the Mississippi 



Quaxi%i%j and Variety of Game. 

This great game reriion,S'i Ul.'le Inoivn to the Sportsmen of the Eastern States, commences at 
Ilannibal. Missouri, an-/, passes on daron through tliefin'-st and most 2ncturcsque portion of Mis- 
souri, cm.^S'-s i/ie D g Muddy {Missuuri luoer) at Dmneville. and then on to the hautiful city oj 
Central Missmcri, and the qnren city of the prairies, Sedalia ; i/icnce to Parsons, Kan., arid up' the 
picturfs(]u(i-falley of th>' Neosho. Beautiful vnllry, vji.'h rolling; upland prairies, broad, majestic 
rivers springs (f pure vmier, de-]) ravines, richp) oAns of waving corn, dotted here and there with, 
pril/y /aim cottages, nestled under the green slop'S. homes of p face and 23lenty. Going south from 
Parsons. Kan., the road leads ddtvn t'nvards the blue iva'ers of the Gulf, and ent-rs the charming 
Indian Territory just below Clt/t'pa, Kan. Beautiful land, inexhaustible inits varietij of resources, 
v)ith its inines, forests, and p)rairies ; its mountains, cataracts, and canyons ; its valUys, dales and 
^Ireanis; home of the 

Deer. Elk, Bear, V/ild Tnrhcy, Grouse, Quail, Duck, Gocsc, 
Erant, Crane, Snijpe, S\:iran, OurlevT", Plover, &,c. 

Broad winding sfnams. clear as the fubhd mirror in the halls of the fairies, ivind aiong the 
green p>rairies, stretching in airy undulations far away, us if the oc-an in his gentlest sivell stood 
blill. ruith <dl his rounded bilb ws f.ccd and motionless forever. Xo other country on the globe 
iquals tliese beautijul lands cftlie red man. It is truly, the 

SFOBTBMAM'JS PARADISE. 

S2')ortsmen desirous of visiting these 3Iagni/icenf S'hootirig Gronnda^ will he Gra- 
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trains, ttc. by addressing the General Pass'ngtr Agent. J I is di sired, from iJuise viIlo seek to know 
•jf our svperivr advantages, tliat liny be particular to st,ile at what ]ioint iliry ivish to take our 
road, and also the station tlay xvi-li to nach, and whether single trip or round trip tickets are de- 
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V'?- oJ days. Parties desiring such ticlcets will please advise us as to ichen ivanU d.from and to wlial 
sta ions, and for how lowj a lime. Sltoull Hare be any .^p,cial item not mentionul in the above, 
relalice to zvhich you mmj xvish to be informed, your cooununication will he prompttly and cheer- 
fully amwered by uddnssing 

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